Quotes by : C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking....

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

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the....

p5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason....

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose....

Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. But....

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent....

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge....

When white-collar people get jobs they sell not only their time and energy but their personalities....

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