The 106 best phrases about culture

The culture It is a word with many meanings. On a daily basis, it is said that culture is the set of knowledge and customs of a people or a social group, which includes everything from their beliefs to their behavior towards life. But it is also said that someone «has culture» because of their knowledge of humanistic and artistic issues and their taste for fine arts.

The word comes from the Latin cultus, which in turn derives from anger, which means «to take care of the field and the cattle», which in the modern sense is cultivate. It was Cicero who used the term anime culture to indicate the need to «cultivate the spirit» in a metaphor to «make wisdom flourish» in human beings.

We have made a selection with the best phrases about culture of excellent authors, such as Paulo Coehlo, Albert Camus, José Vasconcelos, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pablo Picasso and many more.

The best phrases about culture

-Men are distinguished less by their natural qualities than by the culture that they themselves provide. -Confucius.

-People without knowledge of their past, their origin and their culture, are like a tree without roots. -Marcus Garvey.

-Culture is the social use of knowledge. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

-Courtesy is the main display of culture. -Baltasar Gracian.

-Culture is the broadening of the mind and spirit. -Jawaharlal Nehru.

-If we want to preserve culture, we must continue to create it. -Johan Huizinga.

-Culture is created in towns and destroyed in cities. -Miguel Delibes.

-The culture of a nation resides in the hearts and souls of its people. -Mahatma Gandhi.

-Only the one who knows is free, and the freer is the one who knows the most. The freedom that must be given to the people is culture. – Miguel de Unamuno.

-By the thickness of the dust in the books of a public library, the culture of a people can be measured. -John Steinbeck.

-A mind cannot be independent of culture. -Lev Vygotsky.

-Only the educated man is free. -Epictetus.

-The preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. -Cesar Chavez.

-It is not necessary to burn books to destroy a culture. Just make people stop reading them. -Ray Bradbury.

-Culture is knowledge that one does not have to remember, it flows spontaneously. -Diogenes Laertius.

-Culture is the awakening of man. -Maria Zambrano.

-The selection of a point of view is the initial act of a culture. -Jose Ortega y Gasset.

-Culture generates progress and without it, no moral conduct can be demanded of the people. -Jose Vasconcelos.

-A town without literature is a dumb town. -Miguel Delibes.

-Letting hundreds of flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought compete is the policy to promote the progress of arts and sciences, and a flourishing culture in our country. -Mao Zedong.

-The dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. -Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

-Culture allows people to understand each other. And if they are better understood on a spiritual level, it is easier to overcome economic and political barriers. -Paulo Coelho.

-Without culture and the relative freedom that it implies, society, even when it is perfect, is nothing more than a jungle. For this reason any authentic creation is a gift to the future. -Albert Camus.

-We are only curious in proportion to our culture. -Jean-Jacques Rosseau.

-Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are alive. -Gilbert K Chesterton.

-The role of culture is such that it shapes how we reflect as a society on who we are, where we have been and where we hope to go. -Wendell Pierce.

-When a tradition gains enough strength to continue for centuries, one simply cannot eradicate it in a day. – Chinua Achebe.

-Culture is what remains after having forgotten what was learned. -Andre Maurois.

-The stronger a culture is, the less radicals are feared; the more paranoid and precarious a culture is, the less tolerance it offers. -Joel Salatin.

-Two half truths do not make a truth and two half cultures do not make a culture. -Arthur Koestler.

-Since we are destined to live our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to endow it well with knowledge. -Peter Ustinov.

-Culture is transmitted through the family and when this institution stops working properly, the result is the deterioration of culture. -Mario Vargas Llosa.

-Art is a lie that brings us closer to the truth. -Pablo Picasso.

-Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eradicated without first changing the culture itself. -Charlotte Bunch.

-The crucial differences that differentiate human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. -Ruth Benedict.

-Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they listen to. -Walter Lippman.

-Culture is one thing and the varnish another. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

-If the literature of a nation spoils, the nation atrophies and deteriorates. -Ezra Pound.

-A country, a civilization, can be judged by the way it treats its animals. -Mahatma Gandhi.

-Creativity is putting our imagination to work, and it produces the most extraordinary results in human culture. -Ken Robinson.

-Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us obscurantism and the Holocaust. -Alan Moore.

-The beauty of the world is about the diversity of its people.

-Every man who has shown the world the path to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a «universal» without patriotism, without a home, capable of finding his people everywhere. -Chaim Potock.

-Culture is a way of dealing with the world by defining it in detail. -Malcolm Bradbury.

-Without memory there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, society or the future. -Elie Wiesel.

-Youth culture really looks back and accepts the past, but stays contemporary by not keeping a particular style. -Alexander McQueen.

-A positive culture comes from being conscientious and respectful of your colleagues, as well as being empathetic. -Biz Stone.

-Culture is the good education of understanding. – Jacinto Benavente.

-The true soul of a culture, of a nation, is truly discovered with a knife and fork. -Juanjo Braulio.

-The true culture is one that helps us to work for the social betterment of all. -Henry Ward Beecher.

-We rarely realize that our most private thoughts and emotions are not really ours, since we think in terms of languages ​​and images that we did not construct, but were given to us by our society. -Alan Watts.

-Television is the mirror where the defeat of our entire cultural system is reflected. -Federico Fellini.

-Simplicity and naturalness are the supreme and ultimate goal of culture. -Friedrich Nietzsche.

-A single person cannot change an organization, but a culture and good people can. -Frances Hesselbein.

-Strength is born from differences, not from similarities. -Stephen R. Covey.

-Where books are burned, men end up being burned. -Heinrich Heine.

-Pop 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 Jamie.

-Traditions are guides rooted deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful are those that we cannot even describe and about which we are not aware. -Ellen Goodman.

-Everyone blames culture without accepting its responsibility. -James Levine.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. -Henry van Dyke.

-Art is the foundation of culture in any nation that invests faithfully in education. Without art in all its forms, a nation is barbaric. -Gavin Calf.

-Art and culture increase harmony, tolerance and understanding among people. -Matilde Asensi.

-Merely observing your culture without contributing to it seems to be close to existing as a ghost. -Chuck Palahniuk.

-Natural understanding can replace culture, but the latter can never replace the former. -Arthur Schopenhauer.

-If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. -Mary Douglas.

-Vision without power is capable of achieving moral elevation, but it cannot create a lasting culture. -Muhammad Iqbal.

-Literature nourishes the soul and comforts it. -François Marie Arouet.

-Television has done wonders for my culture. As soon as someone turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. – Groucho Marx.

-An army without culture is a foolish army, and a foolish army cannot defeat the enemy. -Mao Zedong.

-A well formed head will always be better and preferable to a very full head. -Michel de Montaigne.

-Globalization, in its eagerness to unify markets, is endangering cultural varieties, their identity, as well as deteriorating their creative capacity. -Ko Un.

-Differences in customs and languages ​​are nothing at all if our purposes are the same and we are open. -JK Rowling.

-Tradition can certainly participate in creation, but it cannot continue to be creative by itself. -Kenzo Tange.

-Who controls the media, controls the culture. -Allen Ginsberg.

-It is not enough to preserve things, it is more important to practice them and keep them alive.

-Books are the bees that carry pollen from one intelligence to another. -James Russell Lowell.

-No culture can live if it tries to be exclusive. -Mahatma Gandhi.

-Humanity builds too many walls and not enough bridges. -Isaac Newton.

-The great law of culture is: let each one become what he is capable of doing. -Thomas Carlyle.

-All cultures, in one way or another, reflect common human needs. -Bronisław Malinowski.

-Tradition is the illusion of permanence. -Woody Allen.

Culture affects our perception of reality. It provides the mental concepts by which people perceive, interpret, analyze, and explain the events that occur in the world around them. -James G. Peoples.

-A book is like a garden that you carry in your pocket. -Arabic proverb.

-The capital function of culture, its true raison d’être, is to defend ourselves against nature. -Sigmund Freud.

-Each culture absorbs elements from cultures near and far, but is then characterized by the way it incorporates those elements. -Umberto Eco.

-Culture does not make people. People make culture. -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

-If you do something outside the framework of a dominant culture, it will not be an easy place for you. You will have to achieve it yourself. -Ava Duvernay.

-One of the most effective ways to learn about yourself is by taking other people’s cultures seriously. forces you…

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