Bent Quote by Ishmael Reed

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of…

— Tom Robbins

The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions…

— Andrea Dworkin

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that…

— Rick Mercer

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects…

— Jose Saramago

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

— Camille Paglia

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it…

— John Pomfret

The automobile is an American cultural symbol.

— Raymond Loewy

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to…

— Alex Campbell

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European…

— Sonny Rollins

I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American…

— Ian Anderson

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure…

— Diane Wakoski

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

— George W. S. Trow

In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of…

— Ken Blackwell

If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be…

— Heather Mac Donald

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke