
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p.
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 22
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p.
“In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.”
Step 8, p. 175
The Heart of Change, (2002)
“What is liberal education,” p. 5 [The phrase “specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.” is from Max Weber]
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
“If you're judging any creative effort, longevity is the reward.”
Arthur Rankin, Jr. Interview https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/arthur-rankin-jr
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Nation and Culture
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
In an interview with John M. MacGregor, later published in 'Raw Vision 7' (Summer 1993)
posthumous
Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.38
"Episodes and Visions", p. 308
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Context: To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori; Civilization is Sartre; culture Cocteau; Civilization is mutual aid and self-defense; culture is the judge, the lawbook and the forces of Law & Ordure (sic); Civilization is uprising, insurrection, revolution; culture is the war of state against state, or of machines against people, as in Hungary and Vietnam; Civilization is tolerance, detachment and humor, or passion, anger, revenge; culture is the entrance examination, the gas chamber, the doctoral dissertation and the electric chair; Civilization is the Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno fighting the Germans, then the Reds, then the Whites, then the Reds again; culture is Stalin and the Fatherland; Civilization is Jesus turning water into wine; culture is Christ walking on the waves; Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand; culture is the Soviet tank or the L. A. cop that guns him down; Civilization is the wild river; culture, 592,000 tons of cement; Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.