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Cultural critique Quotes

"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts"

"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste"

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good"

"There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a very violent culture."

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"

"For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community"

"You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia."

"The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people."

"Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry."

"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit"

"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding"