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Man Quotes by C. Wright Mills
- Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be…
- The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America,…
- 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'…
- Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
- In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man.…
- According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned.…
- Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle