"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."

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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."

James S. Coleman, American Sociologist

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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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"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

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"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."

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"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."

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"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards."

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"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."

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"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"

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"Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself."

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"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections."

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"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."

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