Culture Quotes - Page 23

• If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Knowing, Ifs

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• As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

  Kevin DeYoung

  War, Rights, Differences

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2015

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• The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

  Timothy Keller

  Idols, Addresses, Persons

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Destruction, Corners, Has Beens

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• In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Pluralism, Claims, Exclusivity

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• If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.

  Todd Grisham

  Jumping, Atlanta, Iowa

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• I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Passion, Thinking

  Bell Hooks (1996). “Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Radio, Talk Radio

  Bernard Goldberg (2009). “Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

  James Cook

  Cheating, Lying, Integrity

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• Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Educational, Pride

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• The truth is the committed left press in America is not longer interest in reporting the news. Anything that hinders a favorable view of the far left will be ignored; anything that advances liberal causes will be celebrated. News reporting today is largely about ideology and shaping the culture, not about informing the public.

  Bill O'Reilly

  America, Views, Today

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• Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.

  Charles Koch

  Government, Political, Foundation

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• Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Names, America, Lasts

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• I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Fall, Flames, Color

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• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Names, Chinese

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

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• This notion that Americans have. . . that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Order, Very Deep, Notion

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• The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Home, Unique

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• What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.

  Pippa Middleton

  Booty, Obsession, Form

  "Kim Kardashian Compliments Pippa Middleton's 'Amazing Booty'". www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2014.

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• Friends, if it matters to you, I think it is less important that we agree and more important that we learn to disagree with respect. Let's not expect to agree and get frustrated when it doesn't happen. Let's strive to hear each other out while bringing out the best in ourselves and others. I know it's difficult because I feel it everyday. But I also know it'll be good for us as individuals, for the organization, and the country. I invite you to strive with me and help shift our culture.

  Annabel Park

  Country, Thinking, Organization

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• Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

  Andrew Weil

  Food Culture, America, Excess

  "Walk Like An Australian, Lose 10 Pounds" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Grief, Dark, Night

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.

  Billy Graham

  Mean, Race, Mold

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• Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school

  Roland Barthes

  Teacher, School, Fabric

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• The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

  Terence McKenna

  Path, Language, Flashlights

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• We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

  Charlie Munger

  Perfect, Moral, Prison

  Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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