Quotes About Cultural shift

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

The culture at ESPN, I found when I left, isn't the same as when I came. It wasn't as much fun.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

We are no longer very sophisticated thinkers or very precise thinkers. We deal in moods and emotions, especially in the arts, and we have developed a very loose vocabulary along with our loose thinking.

The disintegration of rational society started in the drift from the hearth and the family," says Chesterton. "The solution must be a drift back.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies.

Donald Trump's rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them.

management doesn't change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

The deaths of those young women changed Canadian society. It brought about much stricter gun legislation (though it could be tougher still) and forced a long, hard, often painful examination of equal rights. Of human rights.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Can't call 'em zombies anymore, " sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. "Now we gotta be all politically correct. It's like the Cold Wars never happened.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.