Author: C. Wright Mills

Quotes

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

- C. Wright Mills

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.

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

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

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

- C. Wright Mills

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

- C. Wright Mills

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