C. Wright Mills
A critical sociologist known for his concept of the 'sociological imagination' and his critique of power elites in American society.
Quotes by C. Wright Mills
The corporate rich and the power elite are one and the same.
In America, from a certain point of view, there is no class structure.
The new middle class is composed of white-collar people.
Revolution is not a dinner party.
The intellectual life is a life of leisure.
Freedom is not merely the absence of restraint but the presence of opportunity.
The warlords are the new kings.
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.
The salesmen of American civilization are its missionaries.
To be an intellectual means to be free of the immediate pressures of society.
The promise of the 20th century is false.
Bureaucracy has become the new aristocracy.
Life in America has become a nervous breakdown.
The Cuban revolution is a fact of history.
Sociologists must be public intellectuals.
The individual is not a lone actor but a member of a social world.
Power is concentrated in the hands of a few.
The white-collar world is a world of paper.
History is made by men, but not always as they please.
The elite are not a conspiracy but a social fact.