Damon Galgut Quotes

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

The world is changing very profoundly.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

All societies are historical.

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

Human society can only adapt to social change at a certain rate.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth.

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.