Contemporary Culture Quotes
18 Contemporary Culture quotes by 17 unique authors
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
— Dean Koontz
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The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.
— Andrew Delbanco
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The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be…
— Quentin Crisp
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Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we…
— Jacob Needleman
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Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.
— Billy Graham
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If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living…
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that…
— Tom Ford
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A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but…
— Paloma Faith
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This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so…
— Lionel Trilling
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One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it.…
— Tino Sehgal
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If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of…
— Alan Moore
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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we…
— Rowan Williams
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There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and…
— John Irving
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My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look…
— M. Russell Ballard
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as…
— Rollo May
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I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff…
— Tom Ford
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There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or…
— Michael Leunig
Who Wrote These Contemporary Culture Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Contemporary Culture Quotes as follows: