Yoko Ono Quotes

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it.

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

When the culture dies, the country dies.

What will remain of our cultural identity if audiovisual Europe consists of ... sitting in front of Japanese TV sets showing American programs.

Societies perish when people forget where they come from.

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.

Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity's shared story.

Languages and cultures are disappearing at an enormously fast rate, and many of them are in Canada. These are extreme examples of removal of freedom of expression - to actually lose a language and the ability to express that culture.

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just so many boundaries.