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C. Wright Mills Quotes
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Type: Sociologist Quotes Category: American Sociologist Quotes Date of Birth: May 28, 1916 Date of Death: March 20, 1962 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: C. Wright Mills Related Authors: Todd Gitlin Charles Horton Cooley Kenneth L. Pike Lewis Mumford Talcott Parsons James S. Coleman Thomas E. Mann Kelly Miller |
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
C. Wright Mills Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. C. Wright Mills In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. C. Wright Mills Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. C. Wright Mills Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. C. Wright Mills People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. C. Wright Mills Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. C. Wright Mills Prestige is the shadow of money and power. C. Wright Mills The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. C. Wright Mills The principal cause of war is war itself. C. Wright Mills 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. C. Wright Mills |
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