Quotes About Culture

Monuments are not about history; they are values made visible.

You can learn that no country, no culture, no religion is immune to falling into the abyss into which we fell. And once it begins, there will always be people who shut down their consciences and side with the strongman. Knowing that, we need to develop a kind of preventative uncertainty.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory. It's like taking away the ability to remember your dreams. Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned.

In many towns, the library is the only place you can browse through physical books.

It is as if the city has a bloodstream flowing through it, oxygenated by books.

The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them.

we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family.

Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory.

Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory. It's like taking away the ability to remember your dreams. Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something wose than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

It seems simple to define what a library is—namely, it is a storeroom of books.

Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know.

understood how fundamental books were to Jewish culture, theology, and identity

Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

people of the book.

Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

Destroying a library is a kind of terrorism. People think of libraries as the safest and most open places in society. Setting them on fire is like announcing that nothing, and nowhere, is safe.

Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and revelations of a culture last forever in its books.

books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

Public libraries in the United States outnumber McDonald's; they outnumber retail bookstores two to one.

Our culture generally views tears and what may lie behind them—sadness, anger, disappointment, fear—as signs of a problem. Something has gone wrong. Somebody needs to figure out who screwed up so we can set this thing right. But tears are actually sweet things. They are signs of authentic feelings. Of

She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great number of books. Her world was constantly expanding until she could no longer fit herself into the culture that was most important to her.