Cultural Damage Quotes

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

They seem to me to leave the Indians in a worse condition than they found them in.

The hostility to all Indian ways and culture that characterized so much of Government policy now appears to have been a mistake.

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The culture is not innocent.

Television can only destroy.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

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

The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

Thousands of years of worshiping power has dealt a mortal wound to Chinese culture. That’s hypocrisy and falsehood. The habit of falsehood is fatal to a culture. But to us, falsehood is the essence.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.