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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."
"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it."
"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."
"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."
"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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