"Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part."

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Source : "The Sociological Imagination". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1959.

C. Wright Mills

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty...”
“Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.”

Source : Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.35, Macmillan
“I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
“I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.”
“It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.”
“An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.”
“Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”

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