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Daniel Bell
26 quotes
“I was born in galut [exile] and I accept—now gladly, though once in pain—the double burden and the double pleasure of my self-consciousness, the outward life of an American and the inward secret of the Jew. I walk with this sign as a frontlet between my eyes, and it is as visible to some secret others as their sign is to me.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reflections on Jewish Identity” // Commentary, 1961
“That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Foreword: 1978, p. xi
“Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by "engineers of the soul.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Foreword: 1978, p. xxix
“Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The relationship between a civilization's socio-economic structure and its culture is perhaps the most complicated of all problems for the sociologist.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.”
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“When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Television, as the most "public" of media, has its limits.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.”
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“Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where religions fail, cults appear.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crime is a form of "unorganized" class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The discussion of any society risks seduction by what is transient and tumultuous.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one can buy his share of "clean air" in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.”
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“It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one "voted in" the market economy and the industrial revolution, but today issues of direction of the economy, costs, redress, priorities, and goals all have become matters of conscious and debated social policy.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve called myself a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture. I’m a socialist in economics because I believe that every society has an obligation to give people that degree of decency to allow them to feel that they are citizens in this society... I’m a conservative in culture because I believe in continuity, and I believe in judgment. I don’t believe that all opinions in culture are the same as everybody else’s opinion. I don’t believe that all art is the same. Some things are better than others, and you have to justify why it’s better than others, and you have to understand the grounds of justification. I’m a liberal in politics but liberalism has no fixed dogmas. It has no fixed points, that you can say, “This is the liberal position.” It changes because it’s an attitude. It’s a skepticism. It’s a pluralism, it’s agnostic.”
Daniel Bell (1919–2011) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arguing the World, 2000