| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Centrallyrik: de budskap som lämnas i högtalarna på järnvägsstationer. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| En kultur tar sig sitt mest skapande uttryck när den hos människan stimulerar driften att leka. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Enda sättet att undvika kulturkrockar är att enkelrikta stora delar av befolkningen. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Jag vill inte bo i ett hus med höga, kompakta murar och stängda fönster. Kulturens vindar från alla länder ska blåsa fritt genom mitt hus, men ingen av dem ska föra mig med sig. Jag vill stanna på jorden. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Kultur börjar med att man tvättar fötterna. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Kultur är bara ett tunt äppelskal över ett glödande kaos. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Kultur är en livsform och kultur är en kamp. Kultur måste också vara farlig. | Lise Østergaard |
| Kultur är enhet i den konstnärliga stilen i ett folks alla livsyttringar. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Kultur är förandligandet av allas kamp mot alla. Viljan till makt som gemenskap. | Hans Lohberger |
| Kultur: allt som vi gör och inte aporna gör. | John D. Rockefeller |
| Mångfald är bättre än enfald | John D. Rockefeller |
| Om vi saknar kultur kan vi alltid köpa en. | John D. Rockefeller |
| Sjösätt din båt, välsigna ungdomen och fly så fort du kan från alla former av kultur. | Epikuros (341 f.Kr.-270 f.Kr.) |
| Stora kulturella förändringar börjar i entusiasm och slutar i slentrian. | Jacques Barzun (1907-) |
| Vår kultur är den första av alla kulturer som systematiskt ägnat sig åt att aktivisera den mänskliga dumheten, vårda den, klä den och förse den med uttrycksmöjligheter. | Carl Fredrik Engelstad |
| Äktenskapet är begynnelsen och höjdpunkten av all kultur. | Carl Fredrik Engelstad |
| Kultur er tilpasning af naturen. | Carl Fredrik Engelstad |
| Søsæt din båd, velsign ungdommen og flygt i fuld fart fra enhver form for kultur. | Epikuros (341 f.Kr.-270 f.Kr.) |
| Vi lærer om en andens kultur på samme måde, som vi lærer om sex: på gaden. | Ishmael Reed (1938-) |
| Kultur er benzin og ild i røven, en evne til ikke at kunne sidde stille, men hele tiden at flytte sig, at finde takten ikke i det taktfaste, men i den store ubestemmelige rytmik, der er vores fælles vilkår. | Klaus Rifbjerg |
| Kultur er ikke en sutteklud eller et gipsbind til afstivning af daskende lemmer | Klaus Rifbjerg |
| Kultur, er det ikke noget, man pudser møbler med? | Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949) |
| When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself | Beatrice Hinkle |
| Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? | Ernest Gaines |
| Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something. | Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929-) |
| When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture. | Joe Flaherty (1940-) |
| Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't. | Lord Raglan |
| Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that show the body in pleasure act like poison | Walter Kendrick |
| The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. | Alvin Toffler (1928-) |
| Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why | Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
| Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry | Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) |
| No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? | Ernest Gaines |
| I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. | Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) |
| When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself | Beatrice Hinkle |
| Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something. | Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929-) |
| As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't. | Lord Raglan |
| If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. | Stanislav Grof |
| 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. | Daisaku Ikeda (1928-) |
| It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle | Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) |
| Civilizations fall; cultures are exterminated | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it | Ronald Knox (1888-1957) |
| Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| 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 | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. | Max De Pree |
| The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. | Alvin Toffler (1928-) |
| As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity. | Anthony Beal |
| Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers | George Meredith (1828-1909) |
| Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts. | Michael Eric Dyson (1958-) |
| Culture, with us, ends in headache | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Culture is one thing and varnish is another. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. | Stanislav Grof |
| The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape a | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| Fader, forlat dem - de er formet av vår kultur | Martin Invandrare |
| Kultur er å kjenne det beste som er blitt sagt og tenkt i verden. | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| Kultur er stort sett det vi gjør, og araberene ikke gjør. | P. Storm |
| Kultur hører til de begreper som bare kan forståes av dem som ikke trenger forklaring. | P. Storm |
| Kultur, er ikke det noe man pusser møbler med? | P. Storm |