Culture Today Quotes

#1. Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.

Mal Fletcher

#2. Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.

Paul David Washer

#3. Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#4. Nothing in the world excites the culture today so much as a question. A question seems very appropriate to whatever you have in mind. Allowing your work to remain questionable is a way of satisfying your cultural condition.

Milton Resnick

#5. You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented ... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

Joel Salatin

#6. I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

Susanna Hoffs

#7. I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

Susan Faludi

#8. Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture ... Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

Lewis H. Lapham

#9. Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

Frederic Martel?

#10. In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

John Howard Griffin

#11. Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

Ian Shoales

#12. Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Malcolm X

#13. It seems you can't go anywhere today without seeing some popular culture rendition of Vampyres. I went into a bookstore a few weeks ago and there was an entire section devoted to Teenage Paranormal Romance. Can you imagine?

Abramelin Keldor

#14. The culture you live in today is the culture you have allowed. That is true of your family, and it is true of your country.
Never forget that you will shape the culture in which you exist, or the culture you allow will determine how and - maybe someday - if you are allowed to exist.

Andy Andrews

#15. Pluralism today - at least in America - exists without a dominant culture,

James Davison Hunter

#16. The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

Carl Bernstein

#17. Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.

Anthony Marra

#18. Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.

Rush Limbaugh

#19. It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one.

Rush Limbaugh

#20. The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

Eric S. Raymond

#21. Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society - and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society - is not art.

Joseph Beuys

#22. When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.

Chris Hardwick

#23. Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

Tavis Smiley

#24. India is a confused nation today. It does not understand its nature, which seems to be a hotchpotch of the masculine and feminine way. But if you force me to choose, then I would state that, at this point in time, we're a feminine culture in decline.

Amish Tripathi

#25. Unfortunately, honesty hasn't always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile Police Department. Before we can do our job, they've got to do theirs...

Ravi Howard

#26. Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

Gary Bauer

#27. As a culture, we're so worried about what's going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.

Francis Chan

#28. Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Mitt Romney

#29. The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process - picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.

RuPaul

#30. When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

Gus Van Sant

#31. Far too many young people coming of age today have no spiritual or emotional roots. They have been deprived of values by an agnostic and contemporary culture.

Billy Graham

#32. For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

Ginni Rometty

#33. Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Eleanor Clift

#34. My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is the day that I'm going to find an artist who is so amazing, an artist who will change pop culture. I'm in hot pursuit, always.

Lyor Cohen

#35. Let your imagination soar. What you can do for customers is more than you see today.

Ron Kaufman

#36. We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

Stephen L. Carter

#37. Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.

Hugh Mackay

#38. People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

Chris Kilham

#39. Today more than ever, the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, technology, finance, national security and ecology are disappearing. You often cannot explain one without referring to the others, and you cannot explain the whole without reference to them all.

Thomas L. Friedman

#40. What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.

Sheena Iyengar

#41. For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone ... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.

Kay Coles James

#42. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

Ze Frank

#43. My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road

Marek Edelman

#44. Leaders #1 job is to help their people, teams, leadership, and culture, to be #FutureFit...by supporting People, Planet & Profits, in a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace... today.

Tony Dovale

#45. I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Joel Salatin

#46. Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.

Danny Meyer

#47. A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

Chris Stein

#48. I personally really sympathise with the Maori cause - what's gone on historically and their struggle today as a culture, and how they hold on to that identity and stand up for what's rightfully theirs.

Martin Henderson

#49. One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.

Ron Brackin

#50. America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

Bill O'Reilly

#51. today's heavy emphasis on competition and humiliation of your "opponent" (whether in sports, business, or family), our culture sets men up for anger and unhappiness.

Thomas J. Harbin

#52. Today is a day for celebration, no matter what your religion or your culture. Learn to celebrate today: celebrate the fact that you are alive, that you are breathing, that you have friends, family, angels and spirit guides in your life.

Margaret Neylon

#53. Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Alex North

#54. If you're fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don't know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one's own culture.

William Gibson

#55. Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.

David Brier

#56. America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

Rick Warren

#57. Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

James Franco

#58. Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

Robert Lane Greene

#59. We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today
even in the evangelical church
over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

Alistair Begg

#60. I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#61. Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber

#62. I used to believe that culture was "soft," and had little bearing on our bottom line. What I believe today is that our culture has everything to do with our bottom line, now and into the future.

Vern Dosch

#63. Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change (language); he ascribes it to moral failing.

Robert Lane Greene

#64. The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

George Will

#65. When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.

T.F. Hodge

#66. There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Francis Arinze

#67. I'm persuaded today that the only way you can get into another country with a different culture from your own is to find a local partner who knows the market. Discovering this felt like small children discovering that if you put a bobby pin into an electric plug you get a shock!

Roberto Civita

#68. The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

Ruth Benedict

#69. By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.

John Woodward

#70. For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

Tarkan

#71. It seemed like today's culture placed the value of life below so many other things that have little importance in the long run.

Nancy Carabio Belanger

#72. Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

Serge Daney

#73. Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

Billy Graham

#74. We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.

Philip Yancey

#75. Sometimes how we dialogue in today's culture is just as important as why we dialogue.

Jefferson Bethke

#76. The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.

Ron Brackin

#77. There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

Graydon Carter

#78. In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!

David E. Sorensen

#79. Culture Clash
Dylan says
when I meet his mother today
I shouldn't mention
that I'm Jewish.
I say
okay, but can I
tell her about
the HIV postive thing?
He gives me a look.
I give him one back

Sonya Sones

#80. Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

David Miliband

#81. I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.

George Lois

#82. Joyful chaos, working in tune with the seasons, telling the time by the sun, variety, change, self-direction; all this was replaced with a brutal, standardized work culture, the effects of which we are still suffering from today.

Tom Hodgkinson

#83. Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.

Kenny Ausubel

#84. In ancient times, determinism rested on a belief in an omniscient God. Today, it is not old-time religion, but, rather, our culture's newfound faith - science - that challenges the belief in free will.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#85. There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

Charles Krauthammer

#86. Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow

Satyananda Saraswati

#87. And I'm probably wrong.
Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

Chuck Klosterman

#88. The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples
they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

Pope Francis

#89. To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

Greg Carlson

#90. Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

Terence McKenna

#91. Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore ... Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver.

Tony Dovale

#92. Trying to escape media influences in today's culture is as feasible as trying to protect ourselves from air pollution by not breathing.

Brene Brown

#93. Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.

Mark Bauerlein

#94. When employees feel valued, and are more productive and engaged, they create a culture that can truly be a strategic advantage in today's competitive market.

Michael Hyatt

#95. Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Charles Colson

#96. In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

Daniel Greenberg

#97. What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

Ron Kaufman

#98. The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Adolf Hitler

#99. None of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.

Richard Dawkins

#100. The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

Jon Foreman