Common Culture Quotes:

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

- Carl Bernstein

source: "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

topic: Real, People, Ordinary, Misinformation, Common Culture

We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

- Mahnaz Afkhami

topic: Peace, Blessed, Diversity, Common Culture, Cultural Diversity

He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."

- Pico Iyer

source: Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

topic: Differences, Culture, World, Squabbles, Common Culture

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

- Sam Abell

source: Source: aphotoeditor.com

topic: Culture, Want, Common, Common Culture

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

- Sam Abell

source: Source: aphotoeditor.com

topic: Culture, Common, My Time, Common Culture

I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with.

- Sam Abell

source: Source: aphotoeditor.com

topic: Self, Years, Culture, Smokers, Ledges

Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as is most dramatically illustrated in the European Union. But other groupings of countries are emerging in East Asia and in South America. Basically, as I said, these politics will be oriented around, in large part, cultural similarities and cultural antagonism.

- Samuel P. Huntington

source: Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

topic: Country, America, East, South America, East Asia

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.

- Howard Rheingold

source: Source: medium.com

topic: Baby, Teenager, Communication, Des Moines, Carrier

There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common culture in the history of civilization that's pulled it off. A lot of the times, we want perfection. If we're not perfect, we're not good.

- Victor Davis Hanson

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Country, Civilization, Perfect, Multiracial, Common Culture

The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.

- Eugene Green

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Christian, Book, Writing, Symbolic Meaning, Common Culture

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

- Dennis Potter

topic: Vision, Culture, Common, Common Culture, Wistfulness

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

- Henry Louis Gates

topic: Educational, Dna, Black, Common Culture

If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics.

- Martin Rees

topic: Stars, Intelligent, Years, Common Culture

Both companies have product ranges with world-class brands that complement each other perfectly. Our companies share a common culture and mission. By realizing synergies and with our combined financial and strategic strengths, we will be ideally positioned in tomorrow's marketplace.

- Robert J. Eaton

topic: Class, Culture, World, Common Culture

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Communication, Greek, Special, Archeology, Common Culture

Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

- Kwame Nkrumah

topic: Reality, Order, People, Objective Reality, Common Culture

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

- Christopher Dawson

topic: Men, Blood, Class, Common Culture, Common Language

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

- Joshua Foer

source: Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.188, Penguin

topic: Memories, Ideas, Connections, Common Culture

Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.

- Robert Waterman McChesney

topic: Media, Rights, Culture, Common Culture, Privatization

The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

- Roger Scruton

source: Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black

topic: Modern Youth, Adults, Culture, Rite, Common Culture

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

topic: Moving, Science, Discovery, Common Culture

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

- Terry Eagleton

source: "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

topic: Believe, Thinking, Culture, Common Culture

As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

- Wayne Teasdale

source: Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.13, New World Library

topic: Differences, Our World, Profound, Common Culture

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

- Roger Scruton

source: Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Sacrifice, Culture, Demand, Common Culture