Loss of Culture Quotes

The nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.

Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before I have in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohoolhoolzote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes and no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets; no food; no one knows where they are, perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

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

The whites introduced among them [the Indians] the fatal and exterminating conditions of modern life.

Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

The plague swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out. The entire world changed.

Having lost the old ways, we Cherokee must Consider that we cannot live without the English, for they have all their goods of the English and Arms … without which we could not go to War and so we will always be ruled by them.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual

A quarter of a century ago, we were crazy about politics. Now we are crazy about making money …. I am afraid that one day we will become money hooligans without culture.

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.