Quotes About Cultural shift

Women wear the breeches… in a word, the world turned upside downward.

Perhaps because of these changes the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep.

No self-respecting gastronome was going to look back on the 1950s with anything except pity. •

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

new techniques of mass persuasion. "We must shift America from a needs to desires culture," Mazur said. "People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality. Man's desires must overshadow his needs.

Mexico is a country where the temples of the new gods are built on the gravesites of the old.

Japanese women are refusing to take birth control pills, opting to leave contraception up to men. Do you know what they call women who leave birth control up to men? Mothers.

You know, on the bus, everyone used to read books. But then they were fiddling on their phones or those big phones, I don't know what they're called.

My friend met me at the diner for coffee. His family fled Iran one week before the Shah fell. He didn't want to talk about the hum. I pressed him though. Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here. …

This was the end of Jewish history as a separate

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After three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had formerly our parents, our teachers, and the whole gamut of culture from Plato to Goethe.

Once divorce carried all the stigma. Now, choosing to stay when you can leave is the new shame.

Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

It's fascinating, isn't it, that whereas so many of our statues have been of military leaders, now it may well be sports stars who are the ones more likely to be so honored.

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.

Books marketing has moved from the review culture to a preview culture.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.