White Population

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or population:

    “There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)