“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be ...” — C. Wright Mills Quote

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”

“Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.”

“Prestige is the shadow of money and power.”

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

“Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.”

“Nie można zrozumieć ani życia jednostki, ani życia społeczeństwa, nie odnosząc jednego do drugiego.”

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

“History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.”

“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.”

“For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.”

“In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.”

“To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.”