Quotes about Cultural shift

Our generation has learned to hold to the standard of each other instead of the standard of God. That is the travesty: God is no longer the standard; we are.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting forgotten quickly as we trumpet forward into gay marriage and gays in the military and a much different cultural attitude toward gay lives.

Because of our failure to live out our beliefs, our own lack of moral clarity, and our meddling with partisan politics, Western culture no longer looks to Christianity as its moral source.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.

Ah, Mr Compson said, Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?

Blacks abandoned morals, fathers, and real belief in God.

back in the seventies, when women began to straddle chairs and dance crotch out on television, when all the magazines started featuring behinds and inner thighs as though that's all there is to a woman, well, I shut up altogether.