Culture

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Culture

• "In 16th-century Italy there lived Lodovico Gonzaga, a 16-year old seminarist who was very fond of playing ball. Once a certain priest passing by wondered if for a future priest the youth was too keen on his pursuit and asked him: 'What would you do if you learned that in half an hour the end of the world was coming?' To which Lodovico replied: 'I'd play on.' According to the Russian thinker Georgy Fedotov, the importance of culture lies in precisely that: we go on playing ball on the verge of Doomsday...."
  • Vladimir Barsky, Chromaticism (1996), ISBN 371865704X

• "Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved", André Malraux

• "When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists", Hermann Hesse

• "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver", attributed to a minister in the Nazi Kulturkammer

• "'Culture' is to make a nice drinking bowl from one's enemy's skull. 'Civilisation' is to go to prison for that", Anonymous

• "Whoever controls the media-the images-controls the culture.", Allen Ginsberg

• "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.", Thomas Wolfe