“People often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.” PeopleCultureAsksLeftCasesNewsManagementCorporateDisgustingColleaguesGatheringCnnCorporate Culture Author:Greta Van Susteren
“One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.” KindCultureSocialLevelsCasesEconomyOrganizationRemarkableResilientSlumsSocial Organization Author:Geoffrey West
“Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.” IdeasRealRealityTogetherAmericaCultureAcceptingCasesPolicyJewRefuseIsraelDebateForeign PolicyCompellingSupporterIsraeliAmerican Culture Author:Aaron David Miller
“Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.” DoeCultureLanguageCommonCasesOur LivesStreetsFitAliensGarments Author:Jean Dubuffet
“There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it's a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn't destroy its world. But in any case, there's absolutely no excuse for our making our passionate love for our world dependent on what we think of its degree of health, whether we think it's going to go on forever. Those are just thoughts anyway. But this moment you're alive, so you can just dial up the magic of that at any time.” ThinkingWorldWantMomentsBeautifulSongCultureCasesForeverAliveMagicPlanetsGoes OnDegreesPassionateExcuseAvailableDependentOur WorldRebirthJoyousNo ExcusesPassionate LoveIrreplaceableRequiemNew CulturesJust A Thought Author:Joanna Macy
“We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.” StillsCultureCasesHappeningsAmerican CultureOpen Mindedness Author:Mara Brock Akil
“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.” PeopleDoeSelfMatterFormCultureIndividualForceBornCasesSocietyCivilizationMassOriginalsPossessionEnormousDelusionPlasticCoastEndowment Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.” Has BeensPurposeReligionSongCultureGoalCasesRightsMagicGroupsJazzBackgroundsCivil RightsRevolutionaryReplacedVoodoo Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.” IfsHas BeensAmericaUsedCultureCasesViolenceArmsHigherRegardBlameIndianNorth AmericaSusceptible Book:The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America Source: The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America
“A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.” LyingCultureCasesMediaDogFatsCorporateControversyFleasFear Mongering Author:Steven Weber
“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.” CultureSocialCasesImpossibleCivilizationDiseaseConceptsCrisisMetaphorObviousDisorderDomain Author:Johan Huizinga
“In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon which to rest its case. We are no longer a 'Christian nation,' not even a 'Judeo-Christian culture.'” ChristianCultureNationsReligiousCasesIssuesGenerationsMoralityTheologyBroadsFrameworkOur GenerationChristian Nation Author:F. LaGard Smith
“I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.” ThinkingWritingFirstsCultureActorsPoorCasesTheaterBlameCulture Change Author:Christopher Reeve