Culture Quotes · Page 187

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

— Steven T. Katz

We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

— Gary Lineker

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

— Betty Friedan

“We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’ Thus”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

— Andrew Hoberek

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

— Christopher Poole

Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.

— Frankie Boyle

The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs…

— Thomas Berry

Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a…

— William Anthony Donohue

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media,…

— Camille Paglia

Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position…

— Noel Ignatiev

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their…

— Pat Boone

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child…

— Alan Lightman

I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local…

— Robert Crumb

Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public…

— Phyllis Schlafly

When I said I had always hoped to marry in my race, I really do mean that. That doesn't mean I absolutely…

— Condoleezza Rice

Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture…

— Elif Safak

Other 'Christian' girls may watch the same movies, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes, and have all the same…

— Leslie Ludy

That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to…

— Gordon Quinn

I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to…

— Brad Willis

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of…

— Ai Weiwei

By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a…

— Claudia Roth Pierpont

John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

At heart I'm a hip-hop kid and an R&B kid, but I've always had an appreciation for club culture and dance music.

— Jax Jones

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

— Mark Hoppus

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

— Michael Dell

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

— Laura Dern

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

— Eric Metaxas

I love touring. You get to meet so many people and experience different cultures.

— Jubin Nautiyal

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for…

— Wangechi Mutu

That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.

— Barry Trotz

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

— Bill Cosby

Since the '60s, we've lived so much in an age of quick fixes that the culture itself has become a quick fix.

— Michael McDonald

“And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.”

— John Steinbeck

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

— William Shakespeare

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

— Kathleen Hanna

Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it.

— Ilkin Santak

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in…

— Anna Deavere Smith

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

— Flannery O'Connor