Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Wherever the dominant culture is, that’s where the money goes.

We cannot deny that there is still a horde—as I must call them—of people who, like Licinius the Emperor [Roman Emperor, ruled 81-96], denounce learning and the Arts as a danger to the State and hateful in themselves.

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy.

We want American customs, habits, manners, dress, manufactures, modes of thought, modes of expression, and language. We should encourage national and even State peculiarities; for there are peculiarities and differences in the wants and situations of all people, that require provincial and national, not cosmopolitan, institutions and productions.

Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

… we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

We need a serious intellectual culture in schools.

History shows that the more open the intellectual environment, the better minorities will do.

Jews have become the teachers of men in great things.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where you are expected to be or have to be, the best. It was not at all like that in my family. Tennis was really a hobby. If it led to something, great. If not, there were other things in life. I think that was something I was missing at some points in my career, because when I see Hingis or the Williamses, you see how they were educated for this: to win, to be the best, a bit the American mentality. Number one. Number one. Number one. I didn't have this.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?