Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

There is endless variety in the details of the customs and laws which prevail of the world at large.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Each country is strong on some tradition.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

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.

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

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Culture is more important than politics.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

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

Culture is intangible. It's spiritual. You can't buy it.

Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

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

Culture is more important than politics and government.

We have a unique culture.