„Every time I hear the word culture I release the safety catch on my 9mm.“
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall (2001)
Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!
Schlageter
Wenn ich Kultur höre… entsichere ich meine Browning.
"Schlageter", München 1933, 1. Akt, 1. Szene. Auch verwendet von Joseph Goebbels
Variante: Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall (2001)
— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946
"When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver" was also is used in the 1981 Cannes Film Festival Award winner Mephisto spoken by a character known as "The General" in the English dubbed version.
Misattributed
Variante: "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver." Often attributed to Göring, who might have used such lines, these statements are derived from those in the play Schlageter by Hanns Johst: "Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!" [Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!] (Act 1, Scene 1) The play was first performed in April 1933 for Hitler's birthday. Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 36.
— Barbara Kruger American artist 1945
Words on an untitled artwork (1985)
A takeoff on the quote "Whenever I hear the word 'Culture,' I reach for my revolver," from Hans Johst, Schlageter (1933), act I, scene I (actual quote: Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning! [Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!])
Paraphrased from The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, '"When I heard the word 'culture,'" said Dr. Sarvis "I reach for my checkbook."' pg. 109
— Tyagaraja Carnatic musician and composer 1767 - 1847
Mahatma Gandhi quoted in [Bossy, Michel-Andre, Brothers, Thomas, John C., Artists, Writers, and Musicians, http://books.google.com/books?id=r0SOzr_0Ya4C&pg=PA185, 2001, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-1-57356-154-9, 185]
— Patrick MacDonogh Irish poet 1902 - 1961
She Walked Unaware (1975)
— Terry Pratchett, buch Night Watch
Quelle: Night Watch
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
— Clandestine Culture American artist 1970
http://artdistricts.com/clandestine-culture-between-street-art-and-social-activism/
— Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886
Quoted on the web sans source. Not in the complete Poems. A 2006 self-help book attributes it verbatim to Dave Sim (see below) sans source. A 2009 reprint of Poems: Second Series mentions it in the introduction sans source (thus probably taking it from the unsourced web quote). No earlier attributions found.
Compare to a quote sourced to Dave Sim: "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." (Cerebus #65, 1984)
Misattributed
— Joseph Heller, buch Catch-22
Catch-22 (1961)
Kontext: There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
— Suzanne Collins, buch Catching Fire
Quelle: Catching Fire
— John Masefield English poet and writer 1878 - 1967
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "The West Wind"
— P. W. Botha South African prime minister 1916 - 2006
As Minister of Defence, House of Assembly, 1 September 1975, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 17
— Regina Spektor American singer-songwriter and pianist 1980
"Fidelity"
Begin to Hope (2006)
Kontext: I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart...
— Suzanne Collins, buch Die Tribute von Panem – Flammender Zorn
Quelle: Mockingjay
— Jenny Han American writer 1980
Quelle: It's Not Summer Without You
— Paul Vance American record producer 1929
Song "Leader Of The Laundromat" (1964)