Quotes on “culture”

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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.