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List of C. Wright Mills Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 66 inspiring quotes by C. Wright Mills.

About C. Wright Mills

  • Born: August 28, 1916
  • Died: March 20, 1962
  • Occupation: Sociologist
    • Ibm plus reality plus humanism = sociology.
    Reality Sociology Plus
    Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
    Government Issues Political
    To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. the political and economic power of both must be broken. the power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.
    War Moving Party
    No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful . . .
    Powerful Mean Firsts
    The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... the political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... the military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.
    Military Taken Government
    Here's to the day when the complete works of leon trotsky are published and widely distributed in the soviet union. on that day the ussr will have achieved democracy!
    Democracy Unions Leon
    As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
    Labor Force People Individual
    The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.
    Political Entrepreneur Magic
    The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. and that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. our minds are not yet captive.
    Running Acceptance Mind
    [o]ne could translate the 555 pages of the social system into about 150 pages of straightforward english. the result would not be very impressive.
    Pages Social Results
    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.
    Rome Cities Paris
    According to your belief [christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. i'm on my own. you've got your god.
    Christian Men Belief
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