3,162 Quotes About Culture

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

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