Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way o….

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 mach….

For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them t….

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols..

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker..

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own….

Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist.

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 wea….

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence..

Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know….

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men..

The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, ….

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

To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men ….

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive..

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acce….

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

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, t….

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies.

What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of ma….

A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral s….