Quotes about Culture

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

The Two Kingdoms view maintains that the kingdom came in Jesus and will come again in Jesus' return, but that it is confined to the church in the period between Jesus' two advents. That view goes against the passages cited above. Clearly, the kingdom has in fact deeply affected human culture over the centuries: in the sciences, the arts, the treatment of orphans and widows, education, and every other area of importance to human beings.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

It's always hard for an artist from the U.K. to break into the United States. It's especially harder for a rapper because hip-hop is such an American art form.

If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.