Quotes about Culture

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.

The distinction between a Christian and a pagan is no longer obvious. The

We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several thousand years; the era of Greek antiquity for almost a thousand. In this respect, a single human life imitates the history of mankind; at first it is plunged into immobile slowness, and then only gradually does it accelerate more and more.

The reign of imagology begins where history ends