Quotes by Boorstin, Daniel J.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility >>

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. >>

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the worl >>

Quotations about Culture

Culture is one thing and varnish is another. >>

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and sea >>

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were >>

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

Boorstin, Daniel J.