Culture Quote by Michelle Dean

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common…

— Theodor Adorno

“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural…

— René Girard

In general, when any of us get outraged by relatively minor pop-cultural phenomena, I suspect it's a way of relaxing and not focussing on…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“People who exist at the margins of society are very much like Alice in Wonderland. They are not required to make the tough decision…

— Jamake Highwater

“The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and…

— Norman Manea

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

— Jenny Holzer

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate…

— George Bernard Shaw

What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation”…

— Jamake Highwater

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th…

— Noam Chomsky

“Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.”

— Jonathan Heatt

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

— Thomas Merton