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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In…
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by…
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the…
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any…
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a…
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of…
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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…
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What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes…
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What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store…
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of…
— Karl Marx
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real
— C. Wright Mills
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To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
— Alfred Rosenberg
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of…
— Leon Trotsky
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I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
— Bill Ayers
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
— Franz Kafka
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There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they…
— Warren Ellis
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