Cultural Death Quotes

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.

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.

When the culture dies, the country dies.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

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.

When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

Cajun culture is dying.

If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death - like man. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves!

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally.

In his own country, Death can be kind.

It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.