Culture Quotes - Page 32

• We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

  Charlie Munger

  Perfect, Moral, Prison

  Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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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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• 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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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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• There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of life, the view which sets all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view which relates all human problems social, political, cultural to the doctrinal foundations of the Christian Faith, the view which sees all things here below in terms of God's supremacy and earth's transitoriness, in terms of Heaven and Hell.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

  Karl Rove

  Hopeful, Important, Want

  'FOX News Sunday', www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2004.

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  Terence McKenna

  Maturity, People, Lasts

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• Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Ideas, Raw Materials

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• [On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

  Brian Chesky

  Writing, Email, Projects

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• I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Survival, Next

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• God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Children, Names

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• Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

  Terence McKenna

  Together, Becoming, Dependent

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• Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Philosophy, Moving

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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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• And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Believe, Reflection

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• I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Diversity, World

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• I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

  Tom Ford

  Spiritual, Girlfriend, Shoes

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• If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  People, Looks, Want

  "'X Factor' culture fuelled UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith" by Colin Daniels, www.digitalspy.com. December 10, 2011.

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• I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture.

  Stefan Heym

  Government, Media, Reform

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• Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Language, Made

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• While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

  Andrew Motion

  Rap, Should Have, Choices

  "Ode to a right royal charmer" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Feet, Space

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• Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Political, Inanimate Objects

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• I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Impact, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blow, Dwelling, House

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