Culture Quote by Cass Sunstein

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

— Alissa Quart

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of…

— Christopher Lasch

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

— Graydon Carter

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what…

— Rowan Williams

“Popularity is no boast. From politics to fashion, history has shown popularity is, too often, just a loud celebration of a common ignorance.”

— Kerry Cue

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it…

— Leonard Cohen

In general, when any of us get outraged by relatively minor pop-cultural phenomena, I suspect it's a way of relaxing and not focussing on…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that…

— George Saunders

How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't…

— Thom Andersen

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to…

— Lionel Richie

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

— Jean Paul Gaultier