# Quote — Daniel A. Bell, The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism

> 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.

- Author: [Daniel A. Bell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell.md)
- Book: [The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-a-bell/the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism.md)
- Page: 274
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- Topics: [consumerism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/consumerism.md)
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