“The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.” — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet. — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
“The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy… — Juliet Schor Copy Share Image
At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
“At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.” — Rick Roderick Copy Share Image
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing… — Herbert Gutman Copy Share Image
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
![“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever. A woman is being asked to feel like a monster now though she is whole and fully physically…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bc2/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_where-woman-do-not-fit-the-iron-maiden-s_891982.jpg)
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