C. Wright Mills Quotes
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.
C. Wright Mills
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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Sadie Frost
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Daniel Cormier
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form...
Maimonides
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens
Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
Youssou N'Dour
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.
Paul Tudor Jones
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.
C. Wright Mills