Albert J. Nock Quotes

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

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.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

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

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

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'