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

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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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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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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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"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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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

Edward Abbey, American Author

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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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"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."

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"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

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"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."

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"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."

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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."

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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

"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."

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

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

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

Explore more quotes by Theodor Adorno

"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."

"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."

"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."

"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."

"Intelligence is a moral category."

"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."

"Life has become the ideology of its own absence."

"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."

"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."