Battle Axe Culture

Famous quotes containing the words battle, axe and/or culture:

“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“If the axe is not sharp, it doesn’t matter how hard the wood is.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The local is a shabby thing. There’s nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)