Quotes About Culture

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Thank God for the white male power structure.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilization.

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve

America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.