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    "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"

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We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

by Zachary Quinto Found in: Culture Quotes,
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Culture Quotes,
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or read more

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

by Andre Malraux Found in: Culture Quotes,
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The end of culture is right living.

The end of culture is right living.

by W. Somerset Maugham Found in: Culture Quotes,
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People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures read more

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

by Daisaku Ikeda Found in: Culture Quotes,
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Culture Quotes,
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No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

by Mahatma Gandhi Found in: Culture Quotes,
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

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

by Jawaharlal Nehru Found in: Culture Quotes,
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

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