Karl Manheim Quotes

I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's because the Internet. I think they're exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don't hear all the time in art communities.

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

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.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

History informs where we are and how we got here.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors, three or four. But by the 1960s, there were Jewish deans and administrators. In fact, one of the reasons why MIT became a great university was because they admitted Jews whereas Harvard did not.

Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided moments in the country. The late '60s certainly was one of them, the Civil War being another, but I'm hard-pressed to think of too many.

Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren't even born when we went to the moon, and so they don't have the perspective.

I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating in the 1930s that seem to be, in many ways, to have been weakened or disappeared. And of course the beginning of the 21st century, I mean, you have - at one level you had massive social movements.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

Facion goes in cycles but nothing has changed. When it's ridiculous it's more ridiculous than ever, and when it's wonderful it becomes more wonderful than ever because now more people think: "I dress the body I have, not I have to change the body to wear the fashion." That's what I admire about the growth of the fashion industry. I also think it's wonderful that there is the opportunity to use different textures and fabrics on different colour skins. I am inspired by that.