Quotes from Power, Politics, and People — C. Wright Mills
1916–1962 United States
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When ever the standards of the moneyed life prevail, the man with money, no matter how he got it, will eventually be respected.
Power, Politics, and People (1963)
The first rule for understanding the human condition is that men live in second-hand worlds. They are aware of much more than they have personally experienced; and their own experience is always indirect.
Power, Politics, and People (1963)
Moral distrust of men in public life is an old American convention. In the current campaign, however, it has reached unprecedented heights: each of the leading candidates has felt it necessary to make public an accounting of his personal income.
Power, Politics, and People (1963)