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> [Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-podhoretz/our-culture-is-ill-equipped-to-assert-the-bourgeois-values-which/)

[Norman Podhoretz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-podhoretz/)

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## More by Norman Podhoretz

> [Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-podhoretz/creativity-represents-a-miraculous-coming-together-of-the-uninhibited/)

[Norman Podhoretz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-podhoretz/)

> [The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-podhoretz/the-fear-of-blacks-has-become-the-dirty-little-secret-of-our/)

[Norman Podhoretz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-podhoretz/)

> [Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-podhoretz/our-culture-is-ill-equipped-to-assert-the-bourgeois-values-which/)

[Norman Podhoretz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-podhoretz/)

> ["World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-podhoretz/world-war-iii-was-the-cold-war-and-the-u-s-won-it/)

[Norman Podhoretz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-podhoretz/)

> [ \[T\]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-podhoretz/t-he-isolationism-of-the-left-stems-from-the-conviction-that-america/)

[Norman Podhoretz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-podhoretz/)

> [ The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and \[American\] general press is to defend Israel. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-podhoretz/the-role-of-jews-who-write-in-both-the-jewish-and-american-general/)

[Norman Podhoretz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-podhoretz/)

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