Quotes About Culture

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.