We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.
Culture follows power.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.