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“To watch the sun sink behind a statue of Buddha is to watch a Soul of Culture finding its grave.”
“There is a Gresham's law of culture as well as of money.”
“We have a sick society, that's what we have. We have a sick, degenerate society.”
“The statues are no longer ruins... we are the ruins.”
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.”