Quotes About Culture

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Will Ferguson

To charakterystyczna cecha cywilizacji: niechciane,niezamawiane marzenia

and debris, and her husband and I settled back, sucking on toothpicks like a pair of feudal lords. This may sound sexist and insensitive and politically incorrect—and it is—but I had long since

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

Ireland treats you more like a friend than a tourist.

There's nothing in common between politics and civilization.

two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.