Culture Quotes

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Culture, with us, ends in headache.

Culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them prevail.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Television is the first truly democratic culture – the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Whenever I hear the word “culture,” I reach for my gun. (“Schlageter”)