Culture Quote by Neil Postman

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“culture is not neutral in relation to power but a form of power.”

— James Davison Hunter

“The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of…

— Edward Said

“Story is the mechanism by which we live, express, understand, and evolve. Story is more than just equipment for living — it’s life itself.…

— Derek Rydall

“The governing pattern a culture obeys is a master story – one narrative in society that takes over the others, shrinking diversity and forming…

— FS Michaels

“Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.”

— Robert A. Nisbet

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

— Terence McKenna

“There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world— any place at all.”

— Daniel Quinn

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern culture is the most…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves…

— Eric Chaisson