Culture Quotes - Page 25

• And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Believe, Reflection

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• I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Diversity, World

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• I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Survival, Next

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  Terence McKenna

  Maturity, People, Lasts

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• I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

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• I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

  Terence McKenna

  Pheromones, Levels, Hallucinogens

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• If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  People, Looks, Want

  "'X Factor' culture fuelled UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith" by Colin Daniels, www.digitalspy.com. December 10, 2011.

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• Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

  Karl Rove

  Hopeful, Important, Want

  'FOX News Sunday', www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2004.

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• One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Psychedelic, Incarnation

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• Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Language, Made

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• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

  Terence McKenna

  Caring, Self, Expression

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• So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, Individual, Institutions

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• What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.

  Terence McKenna

  Pain, Animal, Ecosystems

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• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Feet, Space

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• Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Ideas, Raw Materials

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• Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Political, Inanimate Objects

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• It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Hollywood, Machines

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• Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

  Terence McKenna

  Pain

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• While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

  Andrew Motion

  Rap, Should Have, Choices

  "Ode to a right royal charmer" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

  Tom Ford

  Spiritual, Girlfriend, Shoes

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• I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.

  Tom Ford

  Country, Thinking, America

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• We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, World, Materials

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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• I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blow, Dwelling, House

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• I want to be aware of how I treat others, not thinking too highly of myself to be a servant in a culture which tries to place me on a throne that only God should sit.

  Maya Moore

  Thinking, Trying, Thrones

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• Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Mind, Pay

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