We must free ourselves from thinking in terms of nation states.The countries of westernEuropeareno longer ina position to protect themselves individually. Not one of them is any longer in a position to salvage Europe's culture.

-Adenauer, Konrad
  Speech, May.

   Culture is dead, now let us start creating.

-Anonymous
  Graffito by Parisian students on the School of  Architecture walls, May.

Craft is the handprint of all culture.

-Anonymous
  On exhibit of metal and ceramic work displayed at the White House. In Sunday Morning, CBS  T V, 30  Apr.

The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.1.

'He knows'says Hebraism,'his Bible!'öwhenever we hear this said, we may, without any elaborate defence of culture, content ourselves with answering simply: 'No man, who knows nothing else, knows even his Bible.'

-Arnold, Matthew
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.5.

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.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Literature and Dogma, preface.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Literature and Dogma, preface.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  The Dyer's Hand, foreword.

I wish that I could bring Stonehenge to Nyasaland, to show that there was a time when Britain had a savage culture.

-Banda, Hastings Kamuzu
  In the Observer,10 Mar.

Morgan liked to imagine the town as some immense yeast culture, left in a deep cupboard by an absent- minded lab technician, festering uncontrolled, running rampant in the ideal growing conditions.

-Boyd,William Andrew Murray
A Good Man in  Africa, ch.1.

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, And American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, And American culture.

-Colombo,John Robert
  'O Canada', collected in  Al Purdy (ed)  The New Romans (1968).

The breasts, the hallmark of our culture.You cannot sell anything in America without the breasts.

-Donahue, Phil
  On NBC  T V,  Aug.

Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Notes towards a Definition of Culture, ch.1.

   Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  Speech at the  American University, Washington DC. Quoted in Time magazine,18  Jun.

There is a misunderstanding by marketers in our culture about what freedom of choice is. In the market, it is equated with multiplying choice. This is a misconception. If you have infinite choice, people are reduced to passivity.

-Gitlin,Todd
  In the NewYork Times,14 Feb.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

-Gould, StephenJay
  In The Independent, 24  Jan.

Football is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

-Greer, Germaine
  In The Independent, 28  Jun.

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there isno place for industry; becausethe fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

-Hobbes,Thomas
Leviathan, pt.1, ch.13.

The self isnow the sacred cow of American culture, self- esteem is sacrosanct, and so we labour to turn arts education into a system in which no one can fail. In the same spirit, tennis could be shorn of its elitist overtones: you just get rid of the net.

-Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
  Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of  America.

Wenn ichKultur h o« re†entsichere ich meinen Browning! When I hear anyone talk of culture†I take off the safety catch on my Browning!

-Johst, Hanns
  Schlageter, act1, sc.1. The phrase is often attributed to Hermann Goering, in the form'Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun!'.