Social Shift Quotes

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

I think now you see a lot more British films from the perspective of, I guess what would be considered "new" British people - people of color, Asian people. I think that's what's happening now, whereas 20 years ago it couldn't happen because it was still predominantly, "British film is about middle-class white families and what they do."

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

Women have initiated the change all by themselves. The credit goes to them. Men have had no role to play in the rise in women's representation on a film set.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

TV has changed everything.

The notions of consumer choice and local control have stormed the religious realm.

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet they did. Change does happen.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.

Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.

My grandparents had 15 children, my parents had 2 children and I won't be having any child.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.