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Quotes About Culture

steeped like a teabag in aristocratic pretensions...
~ Philip Roth
Ingeniously as their parents and teachers may attempt to protect the young from being drawn, to their detriment, into the moronic amusement park that is now universal, the preponderance of the power is not with them.
~ Philip Roth
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~ Philip Roth
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~ Philip Roth
It's a hard thing to be a jew... it's a harder thing to stay one.
~ Philip Roth
Culture-wise, shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz, self-mocking materialism, blank indifference, and the delusion that cynicism and naïveté are mutually exclusive?
~ David Foster Wallace
Actually, I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
~ David Foster Wallace
This culture-of-watching's relation to the cycle of indulgence, guilt, and reassurance has important consequences for U.S. art
~ David Foster Wallace
The word around good old Table 64 last night was that in primitive and incredibly poor Cozumel the U.S. dollar is treated like a UFO: "They worship it when it lands.
~ David Foster Wallace
The ultimate goal of human life is to transcend culture and personality to the unconditioned pure being. But the means to do this is through our culture and way of life.
~ David Frawley
This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirable that it's constantly faked or exaggerated, and claims that one is not a victim are met with indignation.
~ Unknown
Our nation's angriest culture warriors need to know the cost of their conflict. As they seek to crush their political and cultural enemies, they may destroy the nation they seek to rule.
~ Unknown
les Musulmans éduqués comme nous-mêmes commencions à penser que l'islam était le véritable obstacle qui avait empêché les masses algériennes de passer au XXe siècle. Lorsque
~ Unknown
L'islam n'est pas vraiment une religion progressiste, et, si nous voulions tirer l'Algérie de ce bourbier, notre première tâche était de détruire le mode de vie arriéré islamique.
~ Unknown
La végétation en Kabylie est dense, contrairement aux régions d'Algérie peuplées par les Arabes. Les Arabes détruisent les arbres, les Kabyles les plantent. Il
~ Unknown
the proper study of humanity is humanity itself. History is not just old news. It's people.
~ David Gerrold
Lots of people still wore pants and jumpsuits and worksuits of all kinds, but the longshirt is a permanent part of Hella's culture.
~ David Gerrold
If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.
~ David Gustafson
There are three kinds of people in this modern world; gamer boy eunuchs, cell phone nymphos and book readers. The most valuable are the very vulnerable book readers.
~ David Gustafson
Modern culture's insatiable appetite for photo-ops keeps the not-so-accomplished Tinkerbelles from gracefully slipping into obscurity where they should have remained in the first place.
~ David Gustafson
A ditch-pig culture begets a shit-house body politic.
~ David Gustafson
If one is thoroughly disgusted by the politicians, the courts, the press and the suffocating culture, they should pat themselves on the back for being such an above-average specimen of humanity.
~ David Gustafson
The most effective organizations are those that are held together by shared and enforced principles, values, and standards.
~ David H. Maister
the two southern cultures strongly supported every American war no matter what it was about or who it was against.
~ David Hackett Fischer