Jacques Barzun Quotes

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

You just never know when today's cultural outcasts will become tomorrow's cultural icons.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

Change is no threat to culture.

People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

For politics to change … culture must change too --- and that takes much more than dispatching troops, holding elections, and writing constitutions.

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

While the association and its founders and its founders most sincerely appreciate the splendid elements and achievements of the old-time Indian culture and the methods by which early conditions were met, it realizes most keenly the inefficacy of these methods in meeting the conditions of modern times.

Human society can only adapt to social change at a certain rate.

Time and changes in the condition and constitution of society may require occasional and corresponding modifications

Things that used to be illicit are not illicit today. Licit products of yesterday, may be illicit today.

Please, join the modern world.

… 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.

The American experience shows that the backlash to new ideas and cultures, now evident in many countries can be overcome.

The Chinese move very slowly. Our customs are so fixed that it takes much time to change them.