Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

The world is changing very profoundly.

First of all, I think the situation today is different. We're in a different place than we were in '93, '94.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

Do you believe that life today is the same as it was 10 centuries ago? This tremendous change was produced by the West. Who else produced it?

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

All societies are historical.

Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it's going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

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

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.