Culture Quotes - Page 31

• I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.

  Sean Penn

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  "Sean Penn and Google's Green Chief on the Paris Climate Talks". Interview with Eric Roston and Brad Wieners, www.bloomberg.com. November 30, 2015.

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• In Latino culture, the quinceanera's a big thing - it's when a girl
  becomes a woman. But I think age is just a number - you become a
  woman with the responsibilities you take on and the decisions you
  make. I started realizing that every day is a gift - you have every day to
  be thankful you're alive.

  Emily Rios

  Girl, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Events, May, Hierarchy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'

  Homi K. Bhabha

  Artist, Looks, Safe

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• In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

  Bill Watterson

  Good Life, Excess, Eccentric

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

  Steve Albini

  Mainstream Culture, Way, Racket

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• It's important to celebrate the monogram. It's the DNA of Vuitton. I think - I hope - there is an interest in the philosophy and culture of the Vuitton name. It's quite coherent and intellectual, and the products are great. These are things you will want to pass on - things you treasure.

  Delphine Arnault

  Philosophy, Thinking, Dna

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• I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.

  David Slade

  Supportive, Fans, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Weight, Stuff

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• Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

  Michael Bergdahl

  People, Empowering, Advantage

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

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• In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.

  Kevin Sessums

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

  John Novak

  Mistake, Improvement, Program

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• With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

  John Novak

  Tools, Six, Easy

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• I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

  Shane Claiborne

  War, Kids, Army

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

  Philip Yancey

  Media, Space, Church

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• Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

  Philip Yancey

  Confused, Community, Ordinary

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• The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Destruction, Corners, Has Beens

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• Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Radio, Talk Radio

  Bernard Goldberg (2009). “Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Educational, Pride

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• The truth is the committed left press in America is not longer interest in reporting the news. Anything that hinders a favorable view of the far left will be ignored; anything that advances liberal causes will be celebrated. News reporting today is largely about ideology and shaping the culture, not about informing the public.

  Bill O'Reilly

  America, Views, Today

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• Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Ugly, Memes

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• The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

  Charlie Munger

  Poverty, Old Culture, Customs

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• The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

  Timothy Keller

  Idols, Addresses, Persons

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

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