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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

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

"Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees."
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"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."

"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."

"Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself."

"From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment."

"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards."

"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."

"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."
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