Cultural Retardation Quotes

#1. Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

Marc Maron

#2. Gabriel noticed with satisfaction the way Julia intentionally fingered one of her diamond earrings, as if she understood his revelations and received them gladly. As if she knew he was revealing his love for her through art. His heart swelled.

Sylvain Reynard

#3. Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

Thorstein Veblen

#4. I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.

Cynthia Heimel

#6. All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

George Foreman

#7. An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

George Wein

#8. Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

Kathleen Hanna