Culture Quotes · Page 609

I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power…

— Phil Klay

What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies…

— Mary C. Neal

“Today's American food culture is a contested landscape in search of values, new direction, and its own indigenous sense of rightness and…

— Michael W. Twitty

Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost…

— Roger Ross Williams

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to…

— John McLaughlin

There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would…

— Kehinde Wiley

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing…

— Russell Simmons

“Culture is powerful because it redirects and shapes our behavior; its forces overpower individual intent and reject individual behaviors that are not…

— Liz Wiseman

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical…

— Geoff Mulgan

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women…

— Naomi Wolf

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

— Alastair Campbell

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it…

— Tom Brady

The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.

— Larry Kramer

I don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture.

— Karla Crome

We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage…

— John O'Donohue

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for…

— Adolf Hitler

Once Indians become more visible in pop culture and thus more humanized, then it actually chips away at discrimination. Especially after 9/11,…

— Himanshu Suri

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

— Kate Walsh

“Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making…

— Richard B. Lee

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

— Michael Landon, Jr

If [kids] get into loving relationships, they're afraid they'll be found wanting, won't have the looks or body shape our culture deems…

— Tara Brach

There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are…

— Mary Beard

Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North…

— Ella Baker

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

— Campbell McGrath