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

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

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

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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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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."

Malcolm Bradbury, English Novelist

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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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"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

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"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."

Nick Park, British Director

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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."

Thomas Frank, American Author

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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

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Explore more quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."

Time

"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

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

Democracy

"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

"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

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

Hope

"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."

Reading

"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."

Money

"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers."

Money