Home / Topics / Culture Quotes

Culture Quotes

Browse 10727 quotes about Culture.

Culture Quotes

“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

Ifs Whole Culture Individual Nations Built Finals Arise Obligation Analysis Cycles Genuineness

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.”

Artist Culture Revolution Tyranny Obligation Consumers Internals Skulls Uprising Insurrection Consumer Culture

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.”

“I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.”

People Feels Helping Culture Relation Obligation Agriculture

Author:Alice Waters

“The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”

Humans Feelings Culture Social Simple Principles Concepts Supreme Obligation Realization Range Employee Dependence Indispensable Employers Fertile Social Relationships

Author:Johan Huizinga