Culture Quotes and Sayings

“Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.” – Jonah Goldberg

“In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.” – Eustace Conway

“The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” – Rita Mae Brown

“The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.” – Ruth Benedict

“That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.” – John Abbott

“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.” – Allen Ginsberg

“Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.” – Walter Lippmann

“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