| "The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out." »Lance Morrow |
| "A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy." »Camille Paglia |
| "Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." »Clive Barnes |
| "I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature." »Cicero |
| "I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)" »Lizzy Gardiner |
| "I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American." »Daniel Webster |
| "We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American." »Maya Angelou |
| "The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill." »Peter Ustinov |
| "culture makes all men gentle." »Menander |
| "No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe |
| "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." »Ray Douglas Bradbury |
| "I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean." »George Santayana |
| "Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American." »Malcolm X |
| "Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest." »Marilyn Ferguson |
| "Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture." »Anandabai Joshee |
| "But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people." »Geoffrey F. Albert |
| "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
| "All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." »Noam Chomsky |
| "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson |
| "History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins." »Arnold J. Toynbee |
| "Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human." »Elie Wiesel |
| "If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated." »Erich Fromm |
| "If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring." »Marya Mannes |
| ""The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment." »Med Yones |
| "Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health." »Gloria Steinem |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
