Bernado Bertolucci:
I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

Allen Ginsberg:
Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.

Ayn Rand:
A culture is made or destroyed by its articulate voices.

Dr. Thomas Sowell:
What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Marshall McLuhan:
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Thomas Carlyle:
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Pauline Kael:
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles:
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas; i.e. the class which is ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Oscar Wilde:
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever know, is the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Albert Camus:
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Victor Hugo:
Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

Thomas Jefferson:
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people. They fix, too, for the people the principles of their political creed.

James Madison:
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

George Washington:
Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Voltaire:
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Aeschylus:
Death is a better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aristotle:
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Johann Wolfgang con Goethe:
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Samuel P. Huntington:
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Robert Welch:
The American Republic was bound-and is still bound-to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

Plato:
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Oswald Spengler:
An honorable end is one thing that cannot be taken from a man.

Heraclitus:
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.