Descent Quote by C. Wright Mills

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real

— C. Wright Mills

For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are…

— C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the…

— C. Wright Mills

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center,…

— C. Wright Mills

What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many…

— C. Wright Mills

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of…

— C. Wright Mills

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

— C. Wright Mills

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

— C. Wright Mills

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

— C. Wright Mills

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

— C. Wright Mills

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

— C. Wright Mills