Famous quotes containing the words material and/or culture:
“A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.”
—Harold Laski (1893–1950)
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)