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To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
C. Wright Mills
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C. Wright Mills
Age: 45 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 1962
Died: March 20
Sociologist
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Waco
Texas
Charles Wright Mills
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In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature.
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By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
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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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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 . . .
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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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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You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues
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Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
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The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
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To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.
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