Hannah Arendt Quote

Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy (ed. University of Chicago Press, 1989) - ISBN: 9780226025957