Quotes about Culture
One reason whites, men, and Christians are so hated by the elitist establishment is that they tend to be conservative.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
— Denzel Washington
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
— Jordan Peterson
My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
— Lady Gaga
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
— Rowan Williams
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
— Ravi Zacharias
Just think what it means to live in a Christian state, a Christian nation, where everything is Christian, and we are all Christians, where, however a man twists and turns, he sees nothing but Christianity and Christendom, the truth and witnesses to the truth —
— Soren Kierkegaard
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
— Maya Angelou
America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
— Brennan Manning
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.
— Desmond Tutu
Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
— Isabel Allende