Culture Quotes - Page 24

• The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

  Charlie Munger

  Poverty, Old Culture, Customs

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• There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.

  Barack Obama

  Media, People, Imagination

  "Michael Jackson's family has private service". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 7, 2009.

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• We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

  Peter Block

  Artist, Cake, Safety

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.134, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sorry, Mistake, Trying

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• Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

  Terence McKenna

  Becoming, Language, Propaganda

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• It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Ideas, Community

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• We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, World, Birth

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• A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Sea, States

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• Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Ugly, Memes

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• In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Definitions, Way

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• There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings and as creative beings, and there's not that void for men. Women don't stop being all those things as their lives continue into those decades.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Creative, Age

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• God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Children, Names

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• There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of life, the view which sets all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view which relates all human problems social, political, cultural to the doctrinal foundations of the Christian Faith, the view which sees all things here below in terms of God's supremacy and earth's transitoriness, in terms of Heaven and Hell.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Teacher, Children

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• The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial.

  Brian Chesky

  Strong, Independent, People

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• [On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

  Brian Chesky

  Writing, Email, Projects

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• I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

  Arthur Frommer

  Home, Cities, People

  "Arthur Frommer Answers All Your Travel Questions, and Then Some". freakonomics.com. September 26, 2007.

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• The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership.... a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.

  J. William Fulbright

  Kings, Warrior, Compassion

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• The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

  Bill Gates

  Communication, Information, Leisure

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• Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

  Terence McKenna

  Together, Becoming, Dependent

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• The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Commitment, Responsibility

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• The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Games, People

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• Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Philosophy, Moving

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• One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

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• Culture is another dimension.

  Terence McKenna

  Dimensions

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