Greg Egan Quotes

We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.

We cannot just ape the west. What may be good in an alien country may be unpalatable in India.

The NWO, yeah, we're a bunch of outlaws, thugs, whatever you want to call us, but... we do what we want, when we want. And we're having fun doing it.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.

Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules.

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.

The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.