Culture Quotes - Page 36

• A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

  George Gilder

  Evil, Doe, Fascination

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• The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

  Howard Thompson

  Atheist, Humanity, Superstitions

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• Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

  Charles Colson

  Church, Missions, Never Ending

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• Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Football, Player, Competition

  "Derek McGovern's Wednesday betting update: When the heat is on, Kaymer keeps his cool" by Derek McGovern, www.mirror.co.uk. February 20, 2013.

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• When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my revolver.

  Hanns Johst

  Revolver

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• Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

  Boy George

  Drug, Clubs, Obsession

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• Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rap, White, Dancing

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• Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Spiritual, Song, Father

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• It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

  Jerome Wiesner

  Military, United States, Becoming

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• I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

  Bert McCracken

  Utah, Conservative, Conformity

  "The Used Gladly Sold Their Souls". The Sunday Telegraph, July 10, 2005.

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• The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Pressure, Relentless, Marketplace

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• Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

  Eric Ludy

  Males, Asking, Sweating

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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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• There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Book, Acceptance, Winning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.

  Dan Kimball

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Space

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• Countries can be redeemed. Entire cultures can be brought to "salvation". The land itself can be healed. ... And such miraculous change is brought about by one primary avenue: God working through the market place. ... The primary means to true revival, though, takes place first in the market place.

  Ed Silvoso

  Country, Mean, Land

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• I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have seen on my travels around the world. It's one of the great bonuses of my job in that I get to meet so many people and experience different cultures and it would be hard not to be inspired.

  Chris de Burgh

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.

  Dave Douglas

  Mean, Thinking, Careers

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• Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".

  Immortal Technique

  Jail, People, Waiting

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.

  Mick Hucknall

  Strong, Afros, Influence

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• I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

  Laurie Foos

  People, Dollars, Magazines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elvis when Rhona Barrett wrote her column about the stars. And so it seeped in.

  Laurie Foos

  Mom, Stars, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.

  Ian Bremmer

  Ideas, Together, Different

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• MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

  Megan Alexander

  Fun, Awards, Mtv

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.

  Bocafloja

  Rap, Islamic, Artist

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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