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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."

Hope

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

Freedom

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"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

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

Dream

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"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

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

Democracy

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

God

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"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

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

Change

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

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