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Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.
If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism
As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.
Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.
Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.
Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.
National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.
Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.
Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.