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The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.


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You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues



Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.



The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.



What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.



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.

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.



Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!



Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.



To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.



If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.



Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?





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I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.

I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.



The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.



The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.



The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.



Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.



If we just keep sleeping together we'll just be one race and it won't be a problem.

If we just keep sleeping together we'll just be one race and it won't be a problem.



In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.

In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.




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