In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature. C. Wright Mills More Quotes by C. Wright Mills More Quotes From C. Wright Mills If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany. C. Wright Mills definitions greek men The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive. C. Wright Mills acceptance mind running IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology. C. Wright Mills plus sociology reality In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. C. Wright Mills hierarchy publicity world The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. C. Wright Mills best-year fate years The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man. C. Wright Mills The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. C. Wright Mills duck general modern company
