As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does… — 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
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes… — 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… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be… — 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
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — 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
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that… — 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
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