“[The idea] of an environmental ethic runs contrary to our cultural tradition.”

“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ”

“Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person “freely” accepts and uses.”

“These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.”

“Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect.On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values of a culture that respects family, God, and alanguage system above everything else. I give thanks to my maker that I’m a Southern woman.”

“The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)”