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Quotes About Culture

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.
~ Jackson Katz
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
~ RuPaul
Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.
~ Mulgrew Miller
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
~ Rebecca West
Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.
~ Edward Snowden
In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
~ Pope Pius XII
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
~ Warren E. Burger
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
~ Lee Greenwood
Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.
~ Newt Gingrich
Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.
~ Fred Rogers
Music is always a commentary on society.
~ Frank Zappa
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
~ Sonny Rollins
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
~ Kit Williams
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
~ E. L. Doctorow
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
~ Bill Nye
People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.
~ Riccardo Tisci
Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.
~ Ted Nugent
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
~ Christopher Lasch
Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
~ Mohsen Makhmalbaf
It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.
~ Camille Paglia
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
~ George MacDonald
In a free society, you get what you celebrate.
~ Dean Kamen
Literature is the expression of society.
~ Charles Nodier