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Alfred North Whitehead1 quote
A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. — Alfred North Whitehead · 1941Clifford Geertz1 quote
There is no such thing as a human nature independent of culture. — Clifford Geertz · 1973Diana Trilling1 quote
We are all of us, men and women both, the creatures of culture: We do and feel what our societies want us to do and feel, and the demands that they put upon us are not always either very consistent or very precisely correlated with biology. — Diana Trilling · 1970Ray Bradbury1 quote
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury · 1993Toni Morrison1 quote
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. — Toni Morrison · 2015Ursula K. Le Guin1 quote
Through story, every culture defines itself and teaches its children how to be people and members of their people. — Ursula K. Le Guin · 2002