Peter Coyote Quotes

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Culture is more important than politics.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

Even though I did things which were not in accordance with the society's norms, deep down, I am an orthodox woman.

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

If a community decides this is how you're going to dress and these are the punishments, who are we to say different?

Sometimes, when a tide starts to sweep, it makes no difference what the traditions are.

I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.' My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson's disease.

We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.

I'm tired of living the vanilla, non-offensive life. I think that's a really sad way to spend my life, and I lived it like that because that's what I was brought up in, taught to not rock the ship.

The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

There are constant challenges about what's 'mainstream.' These kids in 'Dope' are as mainstream as the kids in 'Superbad' or 'The Breakfast Club.'

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.