62 Quotes About Culture-critique
- Author Preeti Bhonsle
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A man is his own society
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- Author Tertullian
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We live in the world with you. We do not forsake forum or bath or workshop, or inn, or market, or any other place of commerce. We sail with you, fight with you, farm with you.
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- Author Sally Rooney
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It was culture as class performance, literature fetishized for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterward feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about. Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing.
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- Author Michael Pollan
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Yet in general all writers can really do is lift a sensitive finger to the cultural breeze and sense a coming change in the weather; very seldom do they actually change it themselves.
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- Author Jeffrey Rasley
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We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked.
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- Author Irene Nemirovsky
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What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
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- Author Alexandre A. Loch
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Countless others, however, failed to escape the relentless pursuit of the auditors, who assured society that law would prevail. They hunted those who tried to circumvent their rules, which were harsh to prevent the city’s power supply from failing. The rules had to be harsh to avoid bad precedents.Nobody had the freedom to spontaneously use their imagination. This was the order of things.
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- Author George Eliot
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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man could choose not only his wife but his wife's husband!
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- Author Lisa Kemmerer
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Oppressions are by definition linked--linked by common ideologies, by institutional forces, and by socialization that makes oppressions normative and invisible.
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