George A. Moore Quotes

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.

When the culture dies, the country dies.

The day a race ceases to express its thought and its sentiments in that language which has grown with it and which took form with its ethnic temperament, it is lost as a race. The preservation of its language is absolutely necessary to the preservation of the race, of its genius, its character and it's temperament.

The coming of age of Canadian culture may not depend on our ability to protect it at home, but to project it on the world’s stage.

A nations loses its soul and spirit if it cannot act to protect its most basic interests and values.

Awaken a feeling that our ancient buildings are not mere ecclesiastical toys, but sacred monuments of the nation's growth and hope.

A culture that is in the process of being swamped by another often reacts by physically grappling with the outsiders. But it may wage a cultural war as well. Such defensive actions have been given various labels by anthropologists: nativism, revivalism, revitalization, and messianism. All are deliberate efforts to erect a better culture out of the defeat or decay of an older one. ... As hopelessness and apathy settled over these people, the ground was prepared for revivalistic and messianic movements that promised the return of the good old days.

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

People looked up to us for our values and leadership. But today, they laugh as we are busy debating whether one of the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal, was actually built by Indians.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.