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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
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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The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.
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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.
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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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All politics is a struggle for power the ultimate kind of power is violence.
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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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The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.
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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.
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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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My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies
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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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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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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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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.
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I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.
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According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.
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Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
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Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
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The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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