Quotes About Cultural shift

Somewhere in the '80s during the home video era something happened and horror started getting more and more marginalized and thought of as schlock.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

People weren't saying Oh wow anymore. They were saying No way instead and she wondered if there was something she might learn from this.

If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word identity has reached an end.

It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual.

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

Luther claims. Having lost their status as the chosen people and therefore no longer truly "Jews," the Jews are "even changed into another people altogether, with nothing [of the original] left but a lazy remnant" of foreign rascals or gypsies

Aside from anything else marriage may have provided the young grand duchess, it enabled Marie to drop her title and the Romanov name, now considered indecent by the public.

America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.

The light was going out. The country was being invaded by people of inferior cultures and inferior races. The real, vital, white America was being submerged.

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars.

I hated the Beatles when they first came out because they were so goddamn cheery. I didn't listen to popular music from 1964 until 1976, when I first heard the Sex Pistols. Finally a new antihippie sound that could piss off every musical legend that came first.

Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. Being an engineer or an architect had once been high aspirations. Now everybody wanted to be musicians and basketball players, and America didn't build squat.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

Let's see what's going on over in Iraq. A Burger King has opened up and prostitutes are back on the street of Baghdad after 20 years. Fast food and hookers - they are truly living the American Dream.

Estamos perdiendo la saludable costumbre de la esperanza. Ya casi no entendemos que otras sociedades la sigan generando.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds—all 'Chinese'—in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.