Quotes About Cultural shift

For a younger generation to imagine a time where there was no security at airports - going around the world in the bar of a jumbo jet, 'Tell the plane to wait, I'm running late!' - there is something very Austin Powers about David Frost, a man who, in all seriousness, would approach women in a safari suit, with sideburns.

Even in a conservative society like Chennai, youngsters don't feel bound by conventions anymore.

Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

I took a trip down to Mexico. It kind of changed my perspective on life a little bit.

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

universal automobile. With his new car for the people, Ford certainly changed how his fellow citizens lived. But, even more significantly, he changed how they thought about what was important.

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, slavery vanished, and the standards of living and literacy went through the roof. War became less frequent and more horrible.

I don't know what the world is coming to," she said sadly. "In my day select people—secret agents, hired guns, Girl Scouts who expected to sell their cookies without getting raped—were taught to kill with a single thumb." "Were you a Girl Scout?" Stone asked. "Of course. How do you think I know this stuff?

The demographics of this country are changing. And the people coming to this country are soccer fans, not hockey fans.

My main message is that I have a problem with the Islamicisation of our societies.

Societies go backwards sometimes.

Things began to improve when I went to Rangoon. To begin with, my father was promoted, which meant he was at home more. The matriarchal society was ended, and for the first time, I went to a boys' school.

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.

All culture is a "fall" into history...

So, in a way, Chris Horner was right when he told his fellow Heartlanders that climate change isn't the issue. In fact, it isn't an issue at all. Climate change is a message, one that is telling us that many of Western culture's most cherished ideas are no longer viable.

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

A couple of days without a dictator, and you Spaniards have already become bisexual.

She had spent the summer forgetting to be English--and Tannhahorens had spent the summer forgetting the same thing.