"All politics is a struggle for power; the……" — C. Wright Mills
"All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence."
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42 Quotes by C. Wright Mills
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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban…
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he…
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at…
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent…
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government…
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a…
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of…
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What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand…
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What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise…
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his…
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