"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos"

"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it"

"Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time"