"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."

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"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."

Andrew Cohen, American Writer

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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

Herb Ritts, American Photographer

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"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

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"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."

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"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance."

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"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."

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"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."

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"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."

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"The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety."

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"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."

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