3,162 Quotes About Culture



  • Author Guy Mankowski
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    Culture always tells you to look to illusions for answers. ‘Look at me’, it says, ‘I’ve worked it all out’. Celebrities grow too powerful because people mistake their colour for content. They allow them to create a hole at the heart of our culture, in which they then flourish.

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  • Author Lilit Marcus
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    Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it’s not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do.

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  • Author Molly Guptill Manning
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    Former civilians did not anticipate how disoriented they would feel as they lost access to their hobbies and interests while being drilled into a pattern of uniformity and sameness. It felt foreign to them to be told when to wake up, how to dress, what to eat (and when to eat it), the beat at which to march, and when to go to sleep. Privacy and individuality were the luxuries of civilians – not soldiers.

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