Ayn Rand Quotes

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

It is not within the competence of the public authorities to determine culture. Their function is to promote and protect the cultural life of everyone, including that of minorities.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dancers and listen to its folk songs—don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

I think music is a great way of helping people to get to know a country's culture.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

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.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

The coming of age of Canadian culture may not depend on our ability to protect it at home, but to project it on the world’s stage.

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

Culture more than politics determines the success of the society, but politics can save the culture.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

A nation’s literature is the expression of a nation's mind in writing and the concentration of intellect for the purpose of spreading itself abroad and multiplying its energy

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

Our leaders have to stop ignoring the impact that culture is having on our nation.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.

We have a unique culture.