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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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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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"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
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"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
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"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."
People
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
Society
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
Cultural
"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."
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"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
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"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
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