Cherokee/culture/marriage

Famous quotes containing the words cherokee, culture and/or marriage:

    “Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?—Yes, we should believe it.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)