Societal Shifts Quotes

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

People are getting famous now for serving food out of a truck, or for, well, pork buns. I don't know if I'm really pleased to be a part of that. I'm somewhat terrified of what the future holds, especially in America.

The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.

Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.

I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.

The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list.

I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more challenging feels right.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.