Quotes About Cultural shift

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

Emo is over, you can all go home now

I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

She had found out that she had given herself to the exclusive and the dowdy when the future belonged to the showy and the promiscuous; that she was in the case of those who have cast in their lot with a fallen cause

It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show in decades.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.

We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.

I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.