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“I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.”

Cities Danger Taste Adults Excess Vegas Las Vegas Disneyland Good Taste

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.”

Natural Attitude Moral Dangerous Danger Taste Degrees Judgment Intellectual Conscious Increase Monsters Unconscious Aesthetic Entity

Book:The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.”

Social Danger Taste Truth Is Stability Altars Good Taste

Book:Credo

Source: Credo

“Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and materialism, in its turn, hurries them on with mad impatience to these same delights; such is the fatal circle within which democratic nations are driven round. It were well that they should see the danger and hold back.”

Source: Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.

“The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our preference for high-paying jobs, but it also alters our capacity to pray, the nature of our prayers, and the ways in which religious tutelage instructs our values.”

Thinking Way Wells Jobs Values Religious Prayer Influence Danger Praying Taste Capacity Consumers Materialism Consumerism Preference Our Prayers Overconsumption Tutelage

Author:Robert Wuthnow

“Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.”

Danger Taste Smell Wilderness Cult

Book:Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Source: Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

“Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.”

Running Views Consciousness Responsibility Knowing Danger Taste Creating Happenings Errors Careful Reflecting Slipping

Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee