"If you do not specify and confront real……" — C. Wright Mills
"If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell."
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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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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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