C. Wright Mills Quotes
The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
C. Wright Mills
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
Bai Ling
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown
I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
Rachel Platten
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal al-Sharif
Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
Tadao Ando
Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.
Hubert de Givenchy
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
John Updike
False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.
Kriti Sanon
The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
C. Wright Mills
