Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere...… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center,… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
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… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this? — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share
