Attention Quote by Philip Yancey

“Simply put, relating to the world by following the world can be a recipe for disappointment and disillusionment. Countercultures that point out the problem…

— Gabe Lyons

“Common culture is in disrepute because many believe our Western tradition has promoted uniquely oppressive and imperialistic attitudes and practices. But it remains the…

— George W. Carey

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which…

— Maya Angelou

“I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We thought that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Unless we have the courage to fight for a revival of wholesome reserve between man and man, we shall perish in an anarchy of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national…

— Richard Eyre

“Unshackled by strict yet arbitrary, misguided norms, outcasts can be, look, act, and associate however they want. And in this ever conformist, cookie-cutter, magazine-celebrity-worshipping,…

— Alexandra Robbins

“Because cultural difference has long been conceived as a redemptive solution to the ambivalence of a Western culture established in the destruction of its…

— Deborah Root

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the…

— Matthew Arnold

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it…

— Clifford Geertz

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for…

— Alain de Botton