Culture Quote by Roland Barthes

“Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.”

— Timothy S. Goeglein

“Politics is where a few people are, some of the time. Culture is where many of the people are, most of the time. There…

— Andrew King

“I wonder if they'll ever realize that their real culture war is not with liberals, but with ambiguity.”

— Roy Edroso

“Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.”

— Roger Scruton

“we must guard against a tendency to require monolithic thought as imposed by political correctness.”

— Ben Carson

“politics, where what is stated is not necessarily what was actually said.”

— Atul Kumar

“But people were not ideal, and politics had to work with people as they were.”

— Edmund Fawcett

“In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell

“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.”

— Timothy Snyder

“In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe Few found the similarity suspicious.”

— Carl Sagan

“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”

— Ralph Miliband