Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
C. Wright MillsThe very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.
C. Wright MillsThe means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.
C. Wright MillsFor we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures
C. Wright MillsThe more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.
C. Wright Mills