Rowan Williams Quotes

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

I'm an older generation.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

Having uncritically accepted [Western] culture in everything, we now find we have lost our hold on the autonomous ideals of the Japanese race.

Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that can be accepted as part of larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

There are some in our region, especially among the Arabs, who do not respect their own identity and culture, and who are dazzled by the West in an unlimited and unobjective manner

We are committing cultural suicide. The barbarians at the gate will only need to give us a slight push, and the emancipated body of Western civilization will collapse in a heap.

Those old enough to write their memoirs should not comment on contemporary issues.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

Western societies will have to focus on the dangers of too rapid cultural change. That might involve some limits on the rate of immigration and on the kinds of immigrants who are permitted to enter.

The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive.

As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.

If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.