“Our culture has lost its sense of God’s tangible presence and activity in our world.” 

“The Church has to enter into the people, it must be the people, make the people grow, and the culture of the people.” 

“No amount of 'peace-building' will be able to last, nor will harmony and happiness be attained, in a society that ignores, pushes to the margins, or excludes a part of itself; it loses something essential. We must never, never allow the throwaway culture to enter our hearts! ... No one is disposable!” 

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

“No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.” 

“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.” 

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” 

Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it’s a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” 

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

“I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.” 

Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.

“White people should have sued for being culturally deprived in a white ghetto. When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” 

“The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.”

“White people should have sued for being culturally deprived in a white ghetto. When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” 

“Needing approval is a female cultural disease, and often a sign of doing the wrong thing.” 

Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very - it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

“The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.”

“With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.”