"The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself."

-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Raw Materials Quotes #Social Quotes #Institutions Quotes

“Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.”
“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

Source : Speech in the Senate, 14 March 1834
“Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.”
“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”

Source : John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.”
“He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.”
“Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.”

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