Avalanches Quote by Milan Kundera Download Open image “Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.” — Milan Kundera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avalanches Culture Madness Perishing Quantity
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation. In the… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“There are many madnesses in every culture! All cultures need reason!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.” — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come. — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the root of… — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes -… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources,… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image