Norman Mailer Quotes

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

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

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.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

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.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

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 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.

The ministry of culture is nowhere, but cultural life is everywhere.

Culture is more important than politics.

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

Without culture, development falls apart.

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Languages and cultures are disappearing at an enormously fast rate, and many of them are in Canada. These are extreme examples of removal of freedom of expression - to actually lose a language and the ability to express that culture.

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.