Popular Culture Quotes
80 Popular Culture quotes by 74 unique authors
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives…
— Carl Bernstein
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
— Noam Chomsky
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
— Noam Chomsky
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not…
— David E. Sorensen
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So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat…
— Cal Thomas
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The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.
— Jac Holzman
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I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
— Branford Marsalis
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Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the…
— Camille Paglia
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It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most…
— Michael Medved
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If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part…
— Michael Schudson
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies…
— Alice Hoffman
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The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism…
— Rod Dreher
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We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the…
— Robert Bly
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And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and…
— Kurt Loder
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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really…
— John Corigliano
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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
— Thomas Kinkade
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With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and…
— Tony Shalhoub
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A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films…
— Ismail Merchant
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The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
— Jaron Lanier
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And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
— Brad Bird
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Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and…
— Ina May Gaskin
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Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.
— Tipper Gore
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Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.
— Bell Hooks
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I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who…
— Rod Dreher
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