Quotes of: Popular-culture Keyword

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its onl...

Small Gods

When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead, a people arises when many actions and movements combine into novel patterns of change. For a people is always in the ...

The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State

If I owned a retail store, I’d keep my shelves empty, so it appeared my product was so popular it was always sold out. Of course, I’d make no sales because I’d have no product to sell, but popularity plus exclusivity would just make people want...

Xazaqazax

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one mus...

Martin Luther King Jr.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the pe...

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

John Charles Polanyi

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Magnus Carlsen

A President cannot always be popular.

Harry S Truman

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

Beautiful Quotes

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

The 180 Degree Christian: Serving Jesus in a Culture of Excess

A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.

The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

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

I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

Miranda Kerr

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Norman Mailer

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

Pat Metheny

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

St. Vincent

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

Theodore Bikel

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Trevor Dunn

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

Laurence Fishburne

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

Lauren Greenfield

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Natalie Cole