Quotes by Steiner, George

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he ca >>

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise a >>

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin >>

Quotations about Popular Culture

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always ne >>

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. >>

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the >>

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

Steiner, George