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Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era". His three best known works are, The End of Ideology, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. May 1919 – 25. January 2011
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“Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 6, The Public Household, p. 244
Context: 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.

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

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 4, Toward the Great Instauration, p. 146

“The discussion of any society risks seduction by what is transient and tumultuous.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 191

“It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.”

Introduction, The Disjunction of Realms, p. 21
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

“The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 134

Daniel Bell Quotes

“When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 90

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

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 196

“If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 131

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

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 95

“The relationship between a civilization's socio-economic structure and its culture is perhaps the most complicated of all problems for the sociologist.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 1, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, p. 33

“The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 197

“Where religions fail, cults appear.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 4, Toward the Great Instauration, p. 168

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

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 124

“The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 198

“Crime is a form of "unorganized" class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 189

“Television, as the most "public" of media, has its limits.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 108

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

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 1, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, p. 78

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