Quotes 81 till 100 of 136.
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
Source: The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo -
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
Source: The Power Elite (1956) -
S a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
Source: White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) -
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art
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Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its inevitability, want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
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Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.
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Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you
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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
Source: The Power Elite (1956)
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