Culture Quotes - Page 5

En tiempos de manipulación televisiva, leer es un acto revolucionario.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

Culture is a catalyst which expedites the reaction called success.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric.

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song.

We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says.

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

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

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

Somehow, we’ve managed to create a social, cultural and political environment in which even our youngest citizens have been so deeply indoctrinated to hate. Who else, I wonder, have we indoctrinated them against? Little Muslim kids against Hindus? Little Hindu kids against Muslims? Little Dalits against all Yadavs?