C. Wright Mills

The old power elite was composed of men of the higher legal and military bureaucracy.

In America, the highest moments of life are not those of personal achievement, but those of collective joy.

The public is merely the collectivity of individuals each isolated by his own trivial concerns.

To be a man is to feel that one's fate is in one's own hands.

The intellectual is one who takes seriously the values of truth and criticism.

Cuba is a laboratory for social change.

The Yankee is a man who knows how to get along.

History is the memory of states.

Men do not become a ruling class by an act of God.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the heir, the last-product in a long line of the great hucksters of American illness.

I am a student of sociology, but I am also a man.

The promise of sociology is to bring us into a larger realm beyond the job.

In the mass society, the public is a phantom.

To understand the life of a man, you must know the history of his time.

The white-collar man is the hero as he is supposed to wish to be in America.

Power is not a term used in the vocabulary of the people who have it.

The military ascendancy of the last half-century has been matched by the civilian ineptitude.

Sociology is the study of the institutional orders of society.

Personal troubles are troubles of the individual as biography.

Public issues are matters that transcend local environments.