Mason Cooley Quotes

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

Ideology has consequences.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.

Culture is more important than politics.

I am aware of the fragility of good political institutions. I never take them for granted. I am always attentive to the ways in which, particularly, collective ideologies of purity -- be it religious purity, racial purity, or national purity -- can go wrong.

The structure of society throughout the world has been created by individuals

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

Are not Religion & Politics the Same Thing?

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.

So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities.