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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

History, Knowledge, Past

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel

Music, Humanity, Healing

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mahatma Gandhi

Soul, Nation, Hearts

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama

History, Long, Rich

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson

Earth, Garden, Occupation

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.
Bob Marley

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi

Live, Exclusive, Attempts

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

Art, Society, Him

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Writing, Through, Write

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp

Great, History, Amazing

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

True, Sheep, Tame

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

Place, Decisions, System

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury

Reading, Stop, Books

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert Camus

Men, Destiny, Cry

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

Freedom, Future, Society

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Find, Hatred, Degree

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand

Ethics, Needs, Western

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
Bob Dylan

Music, Started, Sound

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead

Human, Find, Rich

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Success, Change, Politics

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Cesar Chavez

Disrespect, Contempt, Cultures

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

Control, Thoughts, Moral

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace, Mind, Through

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Mitt Romney

Education, Work, Family

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love, True, Care

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Time, Today

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm

Sex, Mean, Between

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Michelle Obama

Help, Whole, Kids

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Bill Gates

Real, Trouble, Geeks

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