Culture Quotes

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...

The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You c...

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth...

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life forc...

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was t...

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you wi...

I remember taking an anthropology class in college and the professor was explaining that there is li...

I see the cultural messaging everywhere that says an ordinary life is a meaningless life. . . . I kn...

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural ...

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only ...

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be...

Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, tha...

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superst...

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

The only road to freedom is self-education in art. Art is not a luxury for any advancedcivilization;...

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a cont...

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-cul...

We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoeve...

deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, wh...

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal...

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model...

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we ...

She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came wit...

The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks a...

Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall A...

They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any informati...

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is ...

The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the...

Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve t...

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which enc...

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that...

Anecdotes came with his DNA.

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooki...

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another...

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre c...

If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend...

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently ...

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is...

The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people wi...

And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.

It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on ...

And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the f...

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of t...

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely ...

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most inst...

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the les...

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting mood...

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It ...

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate co...

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental reali...

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the r...

Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture ...

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or confor...

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and...

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to ...

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn ...

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inv...

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept workin...

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e...

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities...

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global shar...

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the ar...

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way a...

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important le...

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of indepen...

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-maker...

A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think ab...

We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to s...

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I ...

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms...

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing a...

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from o...

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.