Quotes of: Culture Keyword

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Johan Huizinga

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

James Wolcott

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

Mark Pagel

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Arthur Erickson

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kate Bush

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Chuck D

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Gloria Steinem

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Max Cannon

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Stephen King

We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.

Sam Harris

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

Benazir Bhutto

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

Zainab Salbi

When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain of power relations." In other words, we can talk about doing it for us until our hig...

BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine

Neo-Spenglerians who are attuned to the racial view of history (call them "racists" for convenience) hold that the "final" phase of a Culture—the imperialistic stage—is final only because the cultural organism destroys its body and kills its soul...

An Appeal to Reason: a Compendium of the Writings of Willis A. Carto

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

The Culture of Education

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Brave New World

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Teresa Heinz

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism

Even though it is piracy, scanlation has had positive impact.

Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto