DICHOS/QUOTES

"Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems."

"A little experience can upset a lot of theory."

"Worldwide, we are seeing the transformation of cultures into ‘local color’, making peoples’ cultures extensions of the modern mass media. Culture is being packaged, priced, and sold like building lots, rights-of-way, fast-food, and room service, as the tourist industry promises that the world is his/hers to use. All the ‘natural resources’, including cultural traditions, have their price, and if you have the money in hand, it is your right to see whatever you wish."

"I had assumed that traveling was the crap bit you had to tolerate in order to get to the places you wanted to see, but it occurred to me that maybe the places were the shit bits that you had to tolerate in order to do the traveling."

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation."

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."