George C. Wolfe Quotes

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Societies faced with bewildering changes, and feeling old certainties threatened, are open to new cults.

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

Nations are liable to various revolutions in the state of their minds, and extent of their knowledge, as well as in their power and wealth ….

Society was passing through a most critical stage. The French Revolution had diseased the imagination and unsettled the understanding of men everywhere. The old foundations of social order, loyalty, tradition, habit, reverence for antiquity, were everywhere shaken, if not subverted. The authority of the past was gone.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

The fact that the young, perceiving themselves at a turning point in history, do not feel at home in the society and wish to change it, is a sign of portentous changes and of the difficult travails within which a new humanity is born.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

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 feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

We think we can play a small part in the evolution of culture.

We couldn't have known - who could've predicted what happened in American politics in the 2016? The rise of racism again, or the peeling back of the onion and seeing racism again, was a bit of a surprise in the last couple years.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman