Arena Quote by Noam Chomsky

In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights of women,…

— Noam Chomsky

There's no such thing as a passive audience.

— Anonymous

We've not given any attention to the people in their 50s and 60s, who need attention, education and engagement, in terms of the society…

— Pankaj Kapur

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were…

— Todd Haynes

The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public,…

— Greil Marcus

I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.

— Gavin Creel

Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of…

— Marshall McLuhan

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

— Andy Warhol

The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not…

— Coretta Scott King

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

— Peter O'Toole

“the masses don’t want to feel like ‘the masses’.”

— Bernadette Jiwa

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space…

— Anne Roiphe