Quote by Harry Edson Browne on Government and Power
“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.'”
Harry Edson Browne
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Quote by Tupac Shakur: Behind Every Smile Hides Sadness
“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.”
Tupac Shakur
Quote by Tupac Shakur on War and Poverty
“They Have Money For War But Can’t Feed The Poor.”
Tupac Shakur
Quote by David Bowie on Joy of Life, Addiction, and Relationships
“One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can’t even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That’s when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.”
David Bowie
Quote by Tupac Shakur on Morality in a Bad World
“I know what good morals are, but you’re supposed to disregard good morals when you’re living in a crazy, bad world. If you’re in hell, how can you live like an angel? You’re surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That’s like suicide.”
Tupac Shakur
Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Power Elite and Historical Circumstances
“What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind”
Charles Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills on Mass Media and Urban Culture
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
Charles Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills Quote on Moral Autonomy and Public Issues
“Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else’s terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.”
Charles Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills on Military, Capitalism, and Corporate Leadership
“For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.”
Charles Wright Mills
The Eyes of the Dead – Quote by Jean Cocteau
“The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.”
Jean Cocteau