Tom Wolfe Quotes

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Mormonism is the only large-scale social experiment in American history that has lasted a hundred years

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

There is an almost anti-epicurean tradition at the very base of America. For much of the middle part of American history, people who wanted to overcome that went to France.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

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 real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

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.

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

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

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

The infidels of one age have been the aureoled saints of the next.

The saloon is as dead as slavery.

I have found here in America a philosophic revolution, philosophically effected.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

I know that the Seattle my parents knew is not the Seattle I know and that these things exist in a state of constant flux and change. The hope is that at least some of that change can be for the better.