cultural crisis Quotes

We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

A large part of our cultural confusion lies with the Supreme Court.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

Something has gone badly wrong with our culture. We've created a culture where really large numbers of the people around us can't bear to be present in their daily lives. They need to medicate themselves to get through their day.

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump and the American white working class.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?"

When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.

If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

I think we are as screwed as a culture as we are saved as a culture.