Best Cultural Thoughts
1136 Cultural quotes by 897 unique authors
-
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming,…
— Will Tuttle
-
As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling…
— Unknown Author
-
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
— Gerald Vizenor
-
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had…
— Charles Heiser
-
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
— Steven Levy
-
And you can break yourself free from your hereditary patterns, cultural codes, social beliefs; and prove once and for all that the power within you…
— Michael Beckwith
-
The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable),…
— Unknown Author
-
Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.
— Joel Garreau
-
How can you respect a religion that forces women into polygamous marriages, mutilates their genitals, forbids them to drive cars and subjects them to the…
— Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
-
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In…
— Emily Oster
-
We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be…
— Leslie Jamison
-
The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries…
— Olara Otunnu
-
Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.
— Pepper Schwartz
-
Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess…
— Martin Wolf
-
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became…
— Achmat Dangor
-
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals,…
— Ronald Reagan
-
As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the…
— James Davison Hunter
-
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest…
— Sherman Alexie
-
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the…
— Unknown Author
-
For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered…
— Carroll Quigley
-
Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed…
— Prince Charles
-
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or…
— Anna Kendrick
-
Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.
— Robert Wright
-
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative – destroying…
— Kurt Lewin
-
Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that…
— Glenn Greenwald
More Ways to Read Cultural Quotes
Who Wrote These Cultural Quotes
897 authors contributed a total of 1,136 Cultural Quotes, led by these top contributors: