Charles Wright Mills Quote on America’s Urban Structure
“America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”
Charles Wright Mills
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Quote by Terence McKenna on the Tension Between Ego and the Feminine
“The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.”
Terence McKenna
Quote by Elon Musk about Active Participation
“I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”
Elon Musk
Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Market, Power, and Politics
“The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center… in the political sphere… the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.”
Charles Wright Mills
Poetic Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry about Stars and Uniqueness
“You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…You – only you – will have stars that can laugh.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Jimmy Carter Quote on Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
“My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.”
Jimmy Carter
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Entrepreneurs and Consumer Service
“The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.”
Ludwig von Mises
Jimmy Carter Quote on Faith, Change, and Principles
“My faith has helped me to adjust to life whether I was a small farm boy, a submarine officer, governor, president or an ex-president. I’ve tried to remember the teaching that we have to accommodate change we can’t control in our lives, whether it’s disappointment, sorrow, loss or failure, while simultaneously clinging to principles that never change.”
Jimmy Carter
Heinrich Böll on Marriage, State and Church
“There must be something wrong in these marriages if a woman is contractually obligated to this matter by the state and church.”
Heinrich Böll
“The Abitur is the true homeland of the German” – Heinrich Böll
“The Abitur is the true homeland of the German.”
Heinrich Böll