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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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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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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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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."
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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."
Hope

"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."
Freedom

"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."
Transportation

"Southern California, where the American Dream came too true."
Dream

"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
Future

"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
Democracy

"I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."
God

"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."
War

"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
Change

"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
Fact
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