C. Wright Mills Short Quotes

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Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist

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To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose,

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All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

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The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

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As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

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The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

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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.

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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

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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 and their powers are limited.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

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Every revolution has its counterrevolution — that is a sign the revolution is for real. And every revolution must defend itself against this counterrevolution, or the revolution will fail.

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If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

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