Culture Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“Contemporary citizens have become more deluded in their servitude than any previous generation. Somnambulant automata, many critics have observed, sadly allowing slavery to be…

— David Parry

“the word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless.”

— Mitch Albom

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

— Anne Fadiman

“And that discovery would betray the closely guarded secret of modern culture to the laughter of the world. For we moderns have nothing of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

— Marshall McLuhan

She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself,…

— Toni Morrison

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet…

— Mary Ellen Chase

“The author indicts "our culture's rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction" and counters with the value of "the time and attention required to…

— Cherie Harder

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

— Susan Sontag

“Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her…

— Isabel Allende