C Wright Mills Famous Quotes



"The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man."


C Wright Mills Quotations






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"There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things."
Henry James

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Democritus

"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."
Samuel Johnson

"I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time."
Martha Stewart

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Aristotle

Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.
Darius Ogden Mills

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
Sister Mary Rose McGeady

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
Hermann Hesse

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher