Quotes About Culture

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.