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
Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do… — 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
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
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. — 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
The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to… — 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
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