The [Supreme] Court is no longer primarily a legal institution but rather a political and cultural power.
Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel
The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
In the 21st century, culture is power.
We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
Modern culture is a tremendous force.
To see a trans body in this ideal space - on a cover, in an ad - these are spaces that have immense cultural power to dictate what is beautiful, what is glamorous, what is aspirational, what is sexy, what is clean. That can be very powerful and helpful in the de-stigmatization of trans bodies.
In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.
I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
The conquest of cultural power comes before political power and this is achieved through the concerted action of intellectual ‘organic’ call-outs. Infiltrated into all of the communication, expression, and academic media.
What Gramsci is all about is hegemony: you win the battle of ideas and it dominates.
The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.
Fashion has always captivated me because, like I said, it has the potential to create narratives about what's beautiful, aspirational, chic, masculine, feminine, glamorous, etc. Generally, this power is dispatched in useless ways.
If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.
The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation
In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations - to look into the economic and political underpinnings of the institutions, individuals and groups who share in the control of power.
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
