# Daniel A. Bell

- Quotes: 14
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell.json

## Recently added quotes

> 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.

p. 274 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/what-makes-the.md)

Topics: [consumerism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consumerism.md)

> No one can buy his share of "clean air" in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.

p. 196 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/no-one-can.md)

Topics: [ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology.md)

> Where religions fail, cults appear.

p. 168 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/where-religions-fail.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [fanaticism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fanaticism.md)

> Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.

p. 95 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/today-the-culture.md)

Topics: [culture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture.md)

> 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.

p. 244 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/gadgets-can-be-engineered.md)

Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md)

> Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by "engineers of the soul."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/religions-grow-out.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md)

> Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.

p. 124 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/art-is-not.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md)

> Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/every-society-seeks.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [meaning of life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life.md)

> 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.

p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/nihilism-then-is-the.md)

Topics: [nihilism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nihilism.md)

> The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/the-one-thing.md)

Topics: [consumerism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consumerism.md)

> That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/that-fabulous-polymath.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [reading](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reading.md)

> Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism/modern-culture-is-defined.md)

Topics: [culture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture.md)