Quotes about Culture

Sex has been domesticated, stripped of the promised mystery, added to the category of the merely expected. It's just what is done, mundane as hockey. It's celibacy these days that would raise eyebrows.

Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made me look vulnerable and foolish, and it made me less productive. It was distracting to focus worried eyes on others instead of on homework, and on poor Dad, after all he had done for us, and on the prize of making the whole family look good.

The status quo doesn't shift because you're right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

It's easy to get caught up in the foibles of a corporate culture and the systems that have been built over time, but they have nothing at all to do with the faith that built the system in the first place.

It should be called "a culture" or "this culture," because there is no universal culture, no "us" that defines all of us.

As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.