James Hillman Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

  James Hillman

  People, Imagination, Culture

• It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

  James Hillman

  Motherhood, Two, Order

  Source: scottlondon.com

• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

  James Hillman

  Children, Home, White

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview With Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

• Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

  James Hillman

  Struggle, Soul, Darkness

• We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It's unbelievable, yet it's part of that worship of individuality.

  James Hillman

  Men, Thinking, Individuality

  Source: scottlondon.com

• The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

  James Hillman

  Worry, Culture, World

  Source: scottlondon.com

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