--- title: "7 Commercial Culture Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Commercial Culture quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Commercial Culture sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/lawrence-lessig-3201_book_as-i-ve-indicated-most-books-go-out-of-p_36814.png" --- > [As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-lessig/as-i-ve-indicated-most-books-go-out-of-print-within-one-year-the-same/) [Lawrence Lessig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-lessig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/lawrence-lessig-3201_book_as-i-ve-indicated-most-books-go-out-of-p_36814.png) > [All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/all-of-us-somehow-felt-that-the-next-battleground-was-going-to-be/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ff/kalle-lasn-22904_advertising_all-of-us-somehow-felt-that-the-next-bat_498914.png) > [“In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baxter/in-a-relentlessly-commercial-culture-the-communication-of-our-private/) [Charles Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baxter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/charles-baxter-8009_communication_in-a-relentlessly-commercial-culture-the_812174.png) > [“The commercial media … help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-hedges/the-commercial-media-help-citizens-feel-as-if-they-are-successful-and/) [Chris Hedges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-hedges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30c/chris-hedges-2131_corporate-culture_the-commercial-media-help-citizens-feel_1165551.png) > [It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caterina-fake/it-s-becoming-increasingly-difficult-to-find-kids-to-hang-out-with/) [Caterina Fake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caterina-fake/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e6/caterina-fake-6230_becoming_it-s-becoming-increasingly-difficult-to_1408589.png) > [Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-shocked/mainstream-media-would-convince-you-that-there-s-commercial-culture/) [Michelle Shocked](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-shocked/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/michelle-shocked-15864_convince_mainstream-media-would-convince-you-that_1575644.png) > [“For Seabrook this 'nobrow' state - where the old brow distinctions no longer seem to apply - is not only a dumbing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-foster/for-seabrook-this-nobrow-state-where-the-old-brow-distinctions-no/) [Hal Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-foster/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/hal-foster-100173_old-world_for-seabrook-this-nobrow-state-where-the_2598102.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/commercial-culture/#itemlist", "name": "Commercial Culture Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. 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