What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision,the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
-Mary Catherine Bateson,Peripheral Visions,pg 155

As the end of the century approaches,all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,dreamy and demented,they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,...[then] they fall down the curtains.
-Charles Baudelaire

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
-Ruth Benedict

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture,which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time,the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm,even our cultural ideal.
-Carl Bernstein

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
-Rita Mae Brown,Starting From Scratch,1988

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river,there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
-Patrick J. Buchanan

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.
-Albert Camus

A "faith in culture" is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. "Culture" as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized,set up on its own,made into a faith,a cause,a banner,a "platform",is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.
-C.S. Lewis,Lilies that Fester.