"A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior."

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Source : Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

Robert K. Merton

#Ambition Quotes #Vices Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“I saw the comics in the East Village Other, and they weren't superhero comics, they were all about hippies and all about things hippies were interested in. And there was one page in particular, a full page strip called "Gentle's Trip Out" signed "Panzika", and it was totally, totally psychedelic, and really, I don't know if it made any sense at all but it looked so great, and I thought, "This is what I want to do, this is my big influence," and it was.”

Source : Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.
“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
“To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.”
“Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.”
“Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.”
“People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.”

Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd
“The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.80, New York Review of Books
“If you can think it, you can do it”

Source : Dionne Warwick, David Freeman Wooley (2011). “My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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