For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
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 Image
If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is… — 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
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want… — 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
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not… — 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 Image
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this? — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
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 Image