The principal cause of war is war itself..

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….

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

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….

What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men….

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity fo….

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..

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

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their ….

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its pro….

It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and pu….

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

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….

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions havi….