"To say that you can 'have experience,' means,……" — C. Wright Mills
"To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman"
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42 Quotes by C. Wright Mills
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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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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