Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

We have a unique culture.

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

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

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

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

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

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Culture is a reflection of values.

Culture is coded wisdom

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

This is the country that lives in us .... There it must find its nutriment or die.

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

Culture is more important than politics.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

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