Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are among the most powerful monopolies in the history of humanity. So, the problem is, is that they… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
“What I require is a convening of my culture's criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day… — Robert Carothers Copy Share Image
“although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every medium of communication—from painting to hieroglyphs to the alphabet… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
I think it is harder to scare young people because there is an ironic hipster stance that you have to take in… — Brad Anderson Copy Share Image
What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is… — Donny Deutsch Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
'We Are Pop Culture' is my clothing line for women that started with just T-shirts. The clothing line is urban street wear.… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.… — David Platt Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
