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Men Quotes by C. Wright Mills
- Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be…
- The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America,…
- For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'…
- What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power;…
- Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
- In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man.…
- What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions…
- 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…
- According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned.…
- Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.
- A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with…
- Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
- It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and…
- Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist
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