Stephen King Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

  Stephen King

  Play, Trying, Culture

• The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, America, Bullshit

• I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Gun, Thinking

• Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

  Stephen King

  Running, Book, Fighting

• I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

• Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

  Stephen King

  Ignorance, Intellectual, Culture

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

• I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

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