Scissors/culture/superstition

Famous quotes containing the words culture and/or superstition:

    “We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
    —Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)

    “Psychiatric enlightenment has begun to debunk the superstition that to manage a machine you must become a machine, and that to raise masters of the machine you must mechanize the impulses of childhood.”
    —Erik H. Erikson (1904–1994)