Who said “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”?

“In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.”

“Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.”

“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

“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.”

“Every little thing counts in a crisis.”

“A theory must be tempered with reality.”

“Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.”

“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”

“Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.”

“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”