Culture Quotes - Page 31

• A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

  George Gilder

  Evil, Doe, Fascination

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• The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

  Howard Thompson

  Atheist, Humanity, Superstitions

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• When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Fighting, Peaceful

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• The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Ideas, Evil

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• Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Football, Player, Competition

  "Derek McGovern's Wednesday betting update: When the heat is on, Kaymer keeps his cool" by Derek McGovern, www.mirror.co.uk. February 20, 2013.

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• We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Loss, Museums

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• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  Patrick Stump

  Hate, Identity, Meat

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• Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

  Confucius

  Character, Music Is, Backbone

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• In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because we know that committed relationships are good for us, but powerful voices coming from inside and outside tell us that we are suckers if we settle for less than we think we need and deserve in our marriage. Most baby boomers and their offspring carry in our heads the internalized voice of the consumer culture-to encourage us to stop working so hard or to get out of a marriage that is not meeting our current emotional needs.

  William J Doherty

  Baby, Powerful, Believe

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• The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.

  Jane Caputi

  Mother, Religious, Machines

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• Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing!

  David Deida

  Dancing, Connections, World

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• Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

  Boy George

  Drug, Clubs, Obsession

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• It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

  Jerome Wiesner

  Military, United States, Becoming

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• When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my revolver.

  Hanns Johst

  Revolver

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• The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

  Neil Young

  Community, Needs, Helping

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• Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rap, White, Dancing

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• Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Spiritual, Song, Father

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• Well, we have to realize the truth about the person who is a hip-hop insider. Most of these people are not really insiders. They are people who are chosen to do an interview and they will make a statement and say that they are a part of the hip-hop culture, but from an intellectual standpoint, they are not very sharp, because back in '1990..'91 one would criticize somebody for doing one type of commercial and say that's not real hip-hop and then another rapper turns around and sell them malt liquor and say that's real hip hop.

  MC Hammer

  Real, Rapper, People

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• Well, follow who you want to follow. It depends on what your fantasies are. You understand. People have different fantasies in life. The suburban culture. Always dream of being gangstas.

  MC Hammer

  Dream, Gangsta, People

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• Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers were speaking with God's voice, because they are! The word "God" used to be identified with reality - indeed, ultimate reality. In all cultures and at all times, the divine was no mere person, but was a personification of reality.

  Michael Dowd

  Religious, Atheist, Reality

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• I affirm, along with many others, that the major enduring religions of the world are all valid and legitimate. I see them as the responses to the experience of God in the various cultures in which each originated. To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

  Bert McCracken

  Utah, Conservative, Conformity

  "The Used Gladly Sold Their Souls". The Sunday Telegraph, July 10, 2005.

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• What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

  William J. Mitchell

  Evil, Historical, Needs

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• I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

  Charles Colson

  Understanding, Dominion, Righteousness

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• Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

  Charles Colson

  Church, Missions, Never Ending

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