C. Wright Mills Quotes

"The principal cause of war is war itself."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: War, Cause)

"The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: Company)

"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
(Related: Men, Visions)

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: Money, Power, Shadow)

"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: People)

"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
(Related: Government, Americans, Economy, Machine, Wishing)

"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: History, Life, Society, Understanding)

"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: Wealth, Celebrity, Publicity, World)

"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
(Related: Financial, America, London, Nation, Paris, Rome)

"Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: Revolution)