C. Wright Mills

The sociological imagination is not merely a past, but a future.

The sociological imagination is not merely a present, but an eternity.

The sociological imagination is not merely a moment, but a movement.

The sociological imagination is not merely a word, but a world.

The sociological imagination is not merely a dream, but a reality.

The sociological imagination is not merely a myth, but a truth.

The sociological imagination is not merely a belief, but a fact.

The sociological imagination is not merely an opinion, but a knowledge.

The sociological imagination is not merely an idea, but an action.

The sociological imagination is not merely a thought, but a deed.

The sociological imagination is not merely a feeling, but a will.

The first fruit of this imagination is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period.

Nowadays people often feel that their private lives are a series of traps.

It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues.

The social scientist must learn to translate the problems of individuals into the troubles of milieux.

In so far as the family as an institution turns women into darling little slaves, it must be freed from the domination of the male.

The labor leader is popular not for his services to labor but for his services to the press.

The executive has become a sort of semi-visible man.

The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women.

The family has never been the main agency of socialization, but it has always been important.