Culture Criticism Quotes

Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

One of the many things I hate about Donald Trump is that he embodies a kind of very popular popular culture that, as near as I'm able to perceive and stomach, is of no quality whatsoever.

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

Not only in our family, where our relatives keep putting us down, but even in this modern urbanized culture, we girls put our fellow girls down by judging them.

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.