Books Quote by Roland Barthes

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

— Milan Kundera

For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb,…

— Steven Johnson

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

Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We…

— Kenneth Rexroth

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

— Giles Foden

“The governing pattern a culture obeys is a master story – one narrative in society that takes over the others, shrinking diversity and forming…

— FS Michaels

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is…

— Arthur Frommer

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

— Alan Moore

“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

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

There's this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture…

— Todd Haynes

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a…

— Georg Brandes