Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.

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.

The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.