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Preservation of one's own culture
does not require contempt or
disrespect for other cultures.

Cesar Chavez

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbor is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. Paulo Coelho

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. Albert Camus

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. Edward T. Hall

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences. Pierre Bourdieu If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead

We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and
spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of
consumerism. How sustainable is that?

Benjamin Bratt

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me
from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.

Simone de Beauvoir
The Woman Destroyed

Culture does not make people. People make culture.
If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our
culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery
is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called
peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Criss Jami
Killosophy

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of
fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the
mere animal biology to an act of culture.

Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself
that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.

George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe.
The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Joel Salatin
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed
for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

Thomas Sowell
Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you by your culture.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Giving and receiving kindness are easy ways to feel good
and to help others feel good too. People, organizations,
and societies thrive when they are grounded
in a culture of kindness.

Vivek Murthy

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure
as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take
the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves,
read, listen to music, play a sport.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis

An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and
alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods
and more, to build a community--and a culture.

Ben Sasse

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world;
entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Hannah Arendt

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are
estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're
afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will
say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Leo Buscaglia

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the
action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support
the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left
in the realm of darkness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy
to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of
being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old,
the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Josh Fox

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt
to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and
values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because
cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Gregory Bateson

American culture is probably the least Christian culture that
we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full
of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined
with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

Eugene H. Peterson