Caught Quote by Theodor Adorno

“With the advent of the “modern” world some twenty-five hundred years ago (and for whatever reason), these sacrificial systems were threatened and the ones…

— Sandor Goodhart

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter…

— Stanley Milgram

“Moribund cultures are fertile fields for fearful, fatalistic worldviews.”

— Vishal Mangalwadi

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

— Dan Barber

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

— Ayn Rand

If we deny our culture and become nothing and everything, that weakens us.

— Ann Widdecombe

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism,

— Stephen Harper

“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to…

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

— George Bernard Shaw

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

“Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche