Accustomed Quote by Peter Singer

Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States…

— Susan Sontag

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience…

— Arthur Keith

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

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common…

— Salman Rushdie

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

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at…

— Zola Budd

History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room…

— Steven Spielberg

Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men…

— Tom DeLay

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world…

— Elif Batuman

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

— Peter Davison

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark