"Ours is not so much an age of……" — Louis Kronenberger
"Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay."
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58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger
Louis Kronenberger has 58 quotes on this site.
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own,…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria,…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied…
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has…
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More Adulterated Quotes
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a…
— Al-Ghazali
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Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools…
— Leonardo Sciascia
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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point…
— Murray Kempton
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Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
— Sena Jeter Naslund
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In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public,…
— Michael Savage
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You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is…
— Virginia Woolf
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which…
— Olympia Brown
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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love…
— Kiran Desai
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