Karine Vanasse Quotes

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.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

All societies are historical.

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.

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.

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

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

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

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

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.

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

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Civilization and religion do not necessarily move with equal pace.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

If someone feels negative about the way society or culture seems to be going, what it probably suggests is that it's just moving away from the state that they are comfortable with or used to. It's understandable why someone would feel that way.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.