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.
Culture Quotes
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”)
If, in any culture, children are taught, “We are all equally unworthy in the sight of God.” If, in any culture, children are taught, “You are born in sin and are sinful by nature.” If children are given a message that amounts to “Don’t think, don’t question, – believe.” -If children are given a message […]
What are the marks of a sick culture? It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.
Now Americans are being killed simply because they are Americans. Like Orwell, Americans are once again becoming aware of themselves as a nationality, not just as members of some ethnic community or globalized Internet chat group. Americans have been reminded that, despite what the multiculturalists have been preaching, not all cultures are wonderfully equal hues […]
Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape and stature, be these what they may.
The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven- year- olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.
At the center of culture is cult.
