Areas Quote by C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

— C. Wright Mills

So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in terms of…

— Cathy O'Neil

“In a common lesson about electromagnetic forces, students are given an exercise in which a bar magnet is placed on a table surrounded by…

— Peter Frase

“We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

— John Ralston Saul

There has always been something about the biggest, the wealthiest, the best-known, the most prestigious that has appealed to me. It's always seemed to…

— Robin Leach

“Integrity is more significant than income. Honor is more opulent than fame. Self worth is more affluent than net worth.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all…

— John Adams

It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“fundamental to the concept of an elite is the idea that its members must merit their status in the judgment of others and that…

— Thomas R. Martin

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and…

— Ai Weiwei

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom.…

— Abraham Maslow