Quotes About Culture

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt? -timecode 1:11:10

Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?

only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others. Only in a culture of hyperindividualism would it occur to you to do what you wanted without reference to anyone else—

the television culture celebrates incompetence.

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

If we buy into our culture's lies about manhood and leadership, we will never place our trust in God alone.

Maybe it was because of the speed and danger. Or the psychedelic disco ball and the Beatles. Or the 'Suicide' fountain drinks and the crowded boys bathroom. But Skateland on Lindsey Street was absolutely the place to be in the Sixties.

Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.

There's a wonderful book, Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero, which cites a poll that half of Americans can't name Genesis as the first book of the Bible. This is part of the dumbing down of our culture. One of those books that 50 percent of Americans apparently aren't reading is the Bible, or they would know that Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It's sort of like, "I don't know what Genesis is, but I believe it.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

I took some heat from the far right, but my strategy is clear: If traditionalists want to win the culture war, they must fight with honor, because honor, as the true traditionalist understands, is a hallmark of America.

To replace this loss of spirituality, millions of Europeans have embraced the secular concept of "relativism." According to this way of thinking, there is no absolute truth, no certain right and wrong. Everything is "relative." What is wrong in my eyes might not be wrong in your eyes. By this logic, even heinous acts can be explained, so they should not - in fact, they cannot - be condemned. The wide acceptance of relativism has rendered Europe weak, confused, and chaotic.

Shakespeare, Dickens

You only have to travel to Europe to see the difference that an entitlement culture makes. While the United States is a vibrant, creative, and exciting place, Europe today is largely stagnant. Workers there have little incentive to move ahead, because the rate of taxation is punishing and the governments guarantee a certain standard of living.

The NBA: where questioning your sexuality happens!

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

All the exhausting aspects of my job are made worthwhile because I get to experience so many different cultures. It makes you really appreciate the memories.

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.