David Brooks Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.

  David Brooks

  Honesty, Character, Arrows

• We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Trying, Culture

• We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.

  David Brooks

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

• Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

  David Brooks

  Art, People, Culture

  David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, Simon and Schuster

• The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

  David Brooks

  Party, Class, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Dream, America, Personality

• There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is at war with Islam and maybe some of the other civilizations around the world. And I don't agree with that. But I do think there is such a thing as Western civilization. I think it starts with the Greeks and the Romans. Then it goes through the Enlightenment - or the Reformation, the Enlightenment. It goes through the scientific age. And it somewhat defines some of the cultures and mores of Europe and North America and some other countries.

  David Brooks

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.

  David Brooks

  Blessed, School, People

  "Britain Is Working". www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2011.

• That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, Catholic, Balance

  "David Brooks: Focusing On Economic Theory A 'Little Out Of The Pope's Lane'". The Crooks and Liars Interview, crooksandliars.com. December 1, 2013.

• I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

  David Brooks

  Media, Culture, Jackals

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.

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