People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

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.

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.