Calvin Butts Quotes

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

It is the fight for national existence which sets culture moving and opens to it the doors of creation. Later on it is the nation which will ensure the conditions and framework necessary to culture

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

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.

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

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

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

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

… people should not be hindered from attaining development in accordance with their own culture.

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

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

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

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

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

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

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.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

Culture is more important than politics.

Education is the medium by which a people are prepared for the creation of their own particular civilization, and the advancement and glory of their own race.