"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."

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"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."

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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."

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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."

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

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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."

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

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"In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on."

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"I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances."

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"These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries."

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"In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm."

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"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."

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