Best destruction & culture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.”

Ifs Want Self Care Culture Lost Sin Kindness Destruction Preserves Self Destruction Parental Omission Fostering Castaway

Book:Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

“I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.”

Self Desire Culture Literature Century Destruction Claims Institutions Males Sexism Spheres Aesthetics Self Destruction

Author:Christa Wolf

“There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"”

People World Looks Stills War Culture Talking Environment Feminism Capitalism Concerned Destruction Endless Our World Look At Me Sideways Endless War

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.”

Ifs World Feels Looks Hard Culture Violence This World Racism Destruction Environmental Satisfaction Plenty Contentment Innate American Culture Solidity Environmental Destruction

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.”

Book Film Culture Effects Painting Scene Musician Destruction Painter Artistic Filmmaker Giants Tape Burned Taliban Sculptors Infamous Afghan Vandalism Vcr

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.”

Has Beens Culture Destruction Corners Around The Corner

Author:R. C. Sproul, Jr.

“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.”

Culture Left Social Loss Team Destruction Patterns Disruption Dodgers

Author:Joe Flaherty

“The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.”

Wells Shows Earth Mother Culture Religious Objects Destruction Machines Victim Possession Contemporary Ideology Toys Representation Mother Earth Contamination

Author:Jane Caputi

“There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history. It was internal conquest. You had to defend yourself against what the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, an enlightened figure, called the attacks of the "merciless Indian savages," whose known way of warfare was torture and destruction. Also you had a slave population, you had to protect yourself against them. You needed guns.”

“Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.”

People Culture Courses Imagination Activity Behavior Destruction Entertainment Autonomy Materialistic

Author:James Hillman

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

Years Culture Environment Teaching Destruction Educational Our Society Misguided

Author:Cesar Chavez

“The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?”

Doe Culture Politics Chance Survival Destruction Elites

Author:William S. Lind

“We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.”

Culture Victory Destruction Ancient Socialism Awful Triumph Rome Propositions Imperialism Cemetery Desolation Ancient Rome Degeneration Depopulation

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture”

Body Culture Literature Strong Sides Behinds Christianity Opinion Issues Modern Destruction Treats Regard Tendencies Vague Hostile Modern Life Modern Culture

Book:Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)

Source: Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)

“It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.”

Source: Axis Rule in Occupied Europe

“All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.”

“Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.”

“Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire light, a beacon to show the world that our wealth need not show the way to more rapid destruction, but can be leveraged to heal more acres, more backyards, more communities faster than any civilization on the right path has ever done it.”

“Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.”

World Years Culture Destruction Illness Locals Mental Illness Developing Globalisation

Book:The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Source: The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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