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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Money Power Prestige Shadow

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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.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: American Automatic Balancing Cling Competing Disturbed Economy Government Interests Issues Machine Moral Notion Over Political Political Economy Sort Wishing

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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.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Celebrity Descent Even Great Hierarchy Publicity Replaced Wealth World

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

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Both History Individual Life Neither Nor Society The History Of Understanding Understood Without

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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.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Access Any Celebrated Celebrity Center Does Inherent Institutions Major Man Person Personality Power Requires Wealth Wealthy

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

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Advantages Believe Happen Just Loath People

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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.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Aware Directly Limited Live Men Ordinary Powers Private Try Visions Which

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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Every Real Revolution Sign

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The principal cause of war is war itself.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: Cause Itself Principal War

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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.

~C. Wright Mills

Topics: America Capital Center City Financial Hub London Nation National Once Paris Political Rome Social Truly Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: May 28th, 1916

Died: March 20th, 1962

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