Daniel Bell: Quotes about people

Daniel Bell was American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.”

Daniel Bell book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

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

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

Daniel Bell book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

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.”

Daniel Bell book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

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