Quotes About Cultural shift

It is disappointing to find that music in Malayalam cinema is drifting away from its strong melody-base.

It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.

I really wanted to be a blues/jazz/gospel singer, but times had changed and disco was now the music - the new sound. I embraced it with all my heart and the rest is history.

This is the age of disruption.

The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.

if we really want to change the current course of our culture and challenge its guiding ideas, then we need to start with the author of that culture. That means examining man himself.

She felt as though she'd suddenly been transported from the distant past into a brash and indifferent present.

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

In our era, just as in every transitional age, God seems dead, but it is really our Enlightenment culture that has died.

Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.

For example, at the fall of Rome there was very extensive slavery everywhere in Europe; by the time of the "Renaissance" it was long gone.

Who would care if I became pregnant, who would be scandalized? Aunty Eva, Anwar's flatmates. Omar would never know unless I wrote to him. Uncle Saleh was across the world. A few years back, getting pregnant would have shocked Khartoum society, given my father a heart attack, dealt a blow ti my mother's marriage, and mild, modern Omar, instead of beating me, would called me a slut. And now nothing, no one. This empty space was called freedom.

Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.

With them we may say there died a thing older than themselves, these were the Last of the Peasants, the last of the Old Scots folk. A new generation comes up that will know them not, except as a memory in a song...

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead." "He's not dead; just very tired.

A revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors