Quotes About Cultural shift

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

It's sort of sad, but the public is no longer afraid of ghosts. They laugh at them instead.

I'd like to think we can make a nice, glowing change to British dressing.

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

Britain's Got Talent' isn't all that far from 'The Gong Show' 35 years ago, is it?

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

Corruption is just a rude word for the autumn of a people.

People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.

I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'

The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

The status quo doesn't shift because you're right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

The essence of political change is almost always cultural change, and the culture changes horizontally. Person to person. Us to us.

In order to change a culture, we begin with an exclusive cohort. That's where we can offer the most tension and create the most useful connections.

By the early 1800s, India had been reduced from a land of artisans, traders, warriors and merchants, functioning in thriving and complex commercial networks, into an agrarian society of peasants and moneylenders.

it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what happened. I can't explain it all. Just look around at the world. Look at this country. Things just aren't like they used to be.' 'Son, things have never been like what you think they used to be.

It's almost a shock to me to go into places, and there's smoking these days. Boy, my life has changed, because everybody used to smoke.