That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
There's the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that's mine. The generation that laughed at them - that's Tarantino's. And now there's a generation that doesn't know that there were any.
Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me.
How many other opinions, as universally prevailing and as much respected, will … pass away?
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.
We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.
We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.
