Quote by David Byrne

“We are not the products of our culture, we are the creators of it.”

— David Hight

“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.”

— Herman Bavinck

“What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

“We need to create a culture in which we have more actual value.”

— Jaclyn Friedman

“...there is almost nothing more important we can do for our young than convince them that production is more satisfying than consumption.”

— Ben Sasse

“It is only through difference that progress can be made. What threatens us right now is probably what we may call over-communication--that is, the…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture…

— Mitch Albom

“Great cultures bring problems and disagreements to the surface and solve them well, and they love imagining and building great things that haven’t been…

— Ray Dalio

“Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of “self-sufficiency,” and then celebrates it.”

— Wayne Muller

“As individuals, we experience ourselves as the center of whatever social world we inhabit. We think that we are free and refuse to see…

— Andrea Dworkin

“We are made most specifically by the things we cannot bear to do”

— Alexander McLeod