My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

-Kelman,James
  Speech at the Booker Prize award ceremony,11 Oct.

The evolution of culture issynonymous with theremoval of ornament from utilitarian objects.

-Loos, Adolf
Trotzdem1900^1930.

It was unhealthyand unsafe, and of no interest whatever. 'But what,' I said,'about thetigers ?' 'Tigers, perhaps,' he replied pityingly,'but no culture.'

-Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Hew
  Of Lenkoran,  Azerbaijan, in discussion with an  Armenian official. Eastern  Approaches.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  Speech, Peking, 27 Feb.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

-Mill,John Stuart
 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

The word 'civilization'to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing† Civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.

It's all honourable enough in its way, but it creates societies which simply cannot sustain any kind of democratic structure. It always leads to totalitarian and corrupt tyrannies† There's no tradition of moral individual courage in Chinese culture.

-Mo,Timothy
  Of Chinese tradition. In The Fiction Magazine, vol.1, no.4.

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head†everything he paints is both an homage and a critique.

-Motherwell, Robert
  In the Los  Angeles Times, 31  Jul.

Das, worin man die nationalen Unterschiede findet, ist viel mehr, als man bis jetzt eingesehen hat, nur der Unterschied verschiedener Kulturstufen und zum geringstenTeile etwas Bleibendes (und auch dies nicht in einem strengen Sinne). National differences consist, far more than has hitherto been observed, only in the differences of variousgrades of culture, and are only to a very small extent permanent (and not even that in a strict sense).

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
Nachgelassene Fragmente.

El orbe hispano nunca se vino abajo, ni siquiera a la ca|¤da del imperio espan‹  ol, sino que se ha multiplicado en numerosas facetas de ensanches todav|¤a insospechados† No somos pueblos en estado de candor, que se deslumbren fa¤  cilmente con los instrumentos externos de que se acompan‹  a la cultura, sino pueblos que heredan una vieja civilizacio¤  n y exigen la excelencia misma de la cultura. The Hispanic world never crumbled, not even after the Spanish Empire fell, but instead has multiplied itself in broad ways that are still largely unknown† Our people are not naive and are not blinded by the external tools that go together with culture; we are rather the inheritors of an old civilization, and we demand the excellence proper to culture itself.

-Reyes, Alfonso
Pa¤  ginas escogidas,'Valor de la literatura hispanoamericana' (translated as'TheValue of Hispanic American Literature').

The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech.We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

-Rodriguez, Richard
  Frontiers,'Night and Day'.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms, its humour, its music.How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed, that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

-Rollins, Sonny (TheodoreWalter)
  Statement on sleeve of Freedom Suite.

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterraneanö from that whole vast intuitive cultureöare four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps.

-Shaffer, Peter
  Equus, act1, sc.18.

The very power of science to hold knowledge as collective knowledge is founded upon a degree and a quality of trust which are arguably unparalleled elsewhere in our culture† Scientists know so much about the natural world by knowing so much about whom they can trust.

-Shapin, Steven
  A Social History ofTruth.

I've finally figured out whysoap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown- up women have to deal with all day long.

-Steinem, Gloria
  'NightThoughts of a MediaWatcher', collected in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983).

Modern European culture is nothing but a culture of natural sciences.

-SunYat-Sen or  SunYixian
  Speech, Nov, calling for a union of Japan and China to liberate Asia from European influence. Quoted in JohnWu Sun Yat-Sen:The Man and His Ideas (1971).

The theater is the primary evidence of a nation's culture.

-Thurber,James Grover
  In the NewYorkTimes, 27 Jul.

The function of literature through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and thehigh authorityof theself in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

-Trillin, Calvin Marshall
  Beyond Culture, introduction.

   Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view† Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work of the master is his self. But in order to be Rembrandt in ourdayshe would have used new ways that would give a new culture.

-Werefkin, Marianne
  Lettres a'   un Inconnu (1901^05).Translated by Mara R Witzling (ed) inVoicing OurVisions:Writings byWomen Artists (1992).

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

-Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones
  Xingu and Other Stories,'Xingu'.