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“Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.”
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“Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.”
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“For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures”
Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.158, Oxford University Press
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“I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter.”
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“All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.”
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“My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles of Germany, let alone of world Zionism, which was controlled from Berlin.”
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“I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.”
Source : "Banging Everything in Sight: My Trip to the LA Gun Club" by Beau Willimon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.
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“There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.”
Source : "The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham, (p. 280), 1987.