"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."

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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."

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

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

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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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"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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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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."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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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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"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."

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"Culture means control over nature."

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"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

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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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"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."

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