"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

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"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

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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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"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."

Humanity

"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."

Business

"Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music."

Music

"Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence."

Society

"When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present."

Music

"I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together."

Love

"But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media."

Media

"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."

Learning

"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out."

Time

"You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism."

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