Mass Culture Quotes
14 Mass Culture quotes by 13 unique authors
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent…
— Susan Sontag
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
— Walker Percy
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Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans…
— Andrei Lankov
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Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects…
— Robert Warshow
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Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and…
— Unknown Author
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The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will…
— Chris Hedges
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The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an…
— Kenny Smith
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Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all…
— David Riesman
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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded,…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of…
— Jonathan Dee
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Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global…
— Fredric Jameson
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
— Roland Barthes
Who Wrote These Mass Culture Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Mass Culture Quotes as follows: