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C. Wright Mills Quotes
C. Wright Mills Quotes
C. Wright Mills
American
Sociologist
Born:
Aug 28
,
1916
Died:
Mar 20
,
1962
Any
Limited
Political
Power
War
Wealth
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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.
C. Wright Mills
Try
Men
Live
Visions
Directly
Bounded
Powers
Limited
Private
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Men
Aware
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C. Wright Mills
Revolution
Every
Sign
Real
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
Government
Political
Machine
Moral
Moral Issues
Disturbed
Over
Economy
Wishing
Sort
Balancing
Cling
Issues
Political Economy
American
Automatic
Interests
Notion
Competing
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
C. Wright Mills
People
Believe
Loath
Advantages
Just
Happen
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
C. Wright Mills
Great
World
Wealth
Hierarchy
Replaced
Celebrity
Descent
Even
Publicity
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