“I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic”
“Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.”
“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
“He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.”
“Changing yourself is supposed to mean hope, at least according to the self-help books and magazine paradigms, but for me - and I suspect many others - it simply means finding new ways to feel inadequate.”
“Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.”