Good culture quotes?

[Demonamol]

Hi everyone,

I was wandering if anybody knows of any good quotes by anthropologists or sociologists that can epitomise culture?
This one made by EB Tylor in 1871 is quite good:

"[Culture] is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society"

Anybody know of any others? I'm doing a bit of research for my dissertation. Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

[AB Editor]

Try these: http://quote.robertge...search.php?authid=736

Art rather than culture, but a good start. Pound is very good at this stuff sometimes.

[sandyRoe]

'When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning.'
And he wasn't looking for his copy of The Pied Piper.

[Mosaic]

19th century sociologist Edmund Goblot:

The bourgeoisie took up art in order to make a barrier of it

[carrust]

If it moves eff it, if it doesn't move eff it till does, has always been my motto. LOL

[emmie]

You can lead a w hore to culture, but you can't make her think. Not sure if that's you meant, but always liked it.

[Noraq]

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

[Clanad]

"Culture... is an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life" (Clifford J. Geertz (b.1926) Peddlers and Princes: Social change and economic modernization in two Indonesian towns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press)

[Demonamol]

Thanks everyone, this is some good stuff. Clanad, coincidently the Geertz quote is what I'm actually using in the title of my dissertation :)

Anybody got any more?

Thanks for your input guys!

[Buenchico]

"The great aim of culture is the aim of setting ourselves to ascertain what perfection is, and to make it prevail"
Matthew Arnold - "Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism" - Smith, Elder & Co - London - 1869

Chris

[DTCwordfan]

"Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day."

— Frances Hesselbein
The Key to Cultural Transformation, Leader to Leader (1999)


"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."

— Publilius Syrus
1st Century - BC

[jake-the-peg]

Not just man - lots of evidence of culture in chimps

http://www.archaeolog...line/news/chimps.html for starters

[scotman]

You might find something useful here

http://www.brainyquote.com/