Quotes about Culture

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made me look vulnerable and foolish, and it made me less productive. It was distracting to focus worried eyes on others instead of on homework, and on poor Dad, after all he had done for us, and on the prize of making the whole family look good.

The status quo doesn't shift because you're right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

It's easy to get caught up in the foibles of a corporate culture and the systems that have been built over time, but they have nothing at all to do with the faith that built the system in the first place.

It should be called "a culture" or "this culture," because there is no universal culture, no "us" that defines all of us.

As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.

The Two Kingdoms view maintains that the kingdom came in Jesus and will come again in Jesus' return, but that it is confined to the church in the period between Jesus' two advents. That view goes against the passages cited above. Clearly, the kingdom has in fact deeply affected human culture over the centuries: in the sciences, the arts, the treatment of orphans and widows, education, and every other area of importance to human beings.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!