Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. — Matthew Arnold
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters — Jean de La Bruyere
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. — James Baldwin
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. — Henry David Thoreau
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture. — Nursultan Nazarbayev
I’ve always been fascinated by asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film. — Sarah Michelle Gellar
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. — Matthew Arnold
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Nonetheless, there must be a speech: speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the soviet tank or l. A. Cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey