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What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.
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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I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.
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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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To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.
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Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
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Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?
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The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
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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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