Assembly/culture

Famous quotes containing the words assembly and/or culture:

    “There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
    —Karl Kraus (1874–1936)