"One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged."

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Source : "The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R". Book by Richard Hofstadter, Chapter VI, part II, p. 245, 1955.

Richard Hofstadter

#Honesty Quotes #Successful Quotes #People Quotes

“A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.”
“Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Concrete”, p.81, Faber & Faber
“On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.”
“I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!”
“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.”
“The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players”
“If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?”
“It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.”

Source : Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.146, Anchor

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