"To really belong, we have got, first, to……" — C. Wright Mills
"To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it."
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C. Wright Mills
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42 Quotes by C. Wright Mills
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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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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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