3,162 Quotes About Culture

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

I remember taking an anthropology class in college and the professor was explaining that there is little 'sexual dimorphism' in humans. He meant that there are few outward, observable differences between makes and females. At the time I was confused, so I raised my hand. 'I feel like it's very easy to tell men and women apart,' I said.'That's due to culture,' he answered.

I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it so I don't have to be let down. And yet again I am lowballed by the brokenness of the American cultural machine.

Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery.

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.