Quotes of: Mills Keyword

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Emily Greene Balch

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

George Grosz

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Paul Fussell

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

Robert Jay Lifton

Inside the maize mill, the owners no longer had any use for a broom. The hungry people kept the floors cleaner than a wet mop. At the beginning of the month, the mill was packed full of those waiting for fallen scraps. The crowd would part long enoug...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Not all developing countries are the same.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Richard Dooling

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

Suzanne Farrell

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

David McCullough

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

Tavi Gevinson

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Knowledge And Decisions

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Knowledge And Decisions

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

The Miserable Mill

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

The Library at Night

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists.

Orient

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Martin Van Creveld

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has suc...

Millicent Fawcett

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Simon Newcomb

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.

Henry Mintzberg