Culture Quote by Christopher Ryan

“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”

— David duChemin

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an…

— Robert Stone

“On the practical level modern life consists of a constant pursuit of power within a universe devoid of meaning. Modern culture is the most…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If modernity is, as I will argue, a global phenomenon, a Eurocentric approach is bound to mislead us. More recently, historians interested in world…

— David Christian

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our…

— Herbert Butterfield

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

— Barbara Kingsolver

“So again and again we see how under the prevailing paradigm our real past—and the original thrust of our cultural evolution—can only be seen…

— Riane Eisler

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /…

— Adrienne Rich

“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human race over…

— Steven Pinker

This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over intelligence, the…

— George Saunders