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C. Wright Mills [1916-1962] American

Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962.

Power, Famous, History, Men, Money, Society, War

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The principal cause of war is war itself.	War	101
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 celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.	Famous, Power	102
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.	History, Society	103
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.	Men	104
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 corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.		105
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.	Money, Power	106
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.		107
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.		108
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.		109
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.		110
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.		111

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