The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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.
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
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.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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