Culture Quotes

"A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back"

Beck, Musician

"Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion"

Bill Condon, Director

"Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are"

David Dinkins, Politician

"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage"

Carl Bernstein, Journalist

"America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams"

David Brooks, Politician

"Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers"

Kathleen Blanco, Politician

"If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention"

Richard John Neuhaus, Writer

"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it"

Joan Cusack, Actress

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information"

Sherman Austin

"Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture"

John Fiske, Philosopher

"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?"

Thomas Kretschmann, Actor

"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice"

Hassanal Bolkiah, Statesman

"We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture"

James Daly, Actor

"Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture"

Juan Ramon Jimenez, Poet

"In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience"

Jeff Miller, Politician

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