Famous quotes containing the words point, register and/or move:
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
—C. Wright Mills (19161962)
“In 1872 I received a request like this and I did register and vote, for which I was arrested, convicted and fined $100. Excuse me if I decline to repeat the experience.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think youre beginning to live for a single aimfor self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truthswhen all youre really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)