Oriana Fallaci Quotes

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

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

History is the study of what civilizations die from. Literature is the study of what civilizations live for.

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

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

You put your heart and soul into something, and you really hope that people love it as much as you do.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

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.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

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

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

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

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.

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

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

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

I actually prefer teammates that have emotions. It means you care, compared to a guy that's kind of just nonchalant and goes about it like it doesn't matter. So I want guys that care. I want guys that show they care.

We have a unique culture.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.