"Prestige is the shadow of money and power." — C. Wright Mills

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."

— C. Wright Mills

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42 Quotes by C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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