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

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C. Wright Mills was an American sociologist known for his research on power structures and social conflict. His work emphasized the impact of social structures on individual lives and introduced the concept of 'the sociological imagination'. more

“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.”

“NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.”

People Wells Has Beens Young Motivation Successful Achieve Students Amount Investment Programmes Nasa Stimulation

Author:Neil Armstrong

“The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.”

Political Chance Economy Magic Entrepreneur Spheres Sovereign Equilibrium Despotism

Book:The Power Elite

Source: The Power Elite

“The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.”

“[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.”

Social Results Pages Translate Impressive Straightforward Social Systems Very Impressive

Book:The Sociological Imagination

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.”

Men Ideas Reason Political Goal Fate Consequence Independent Statements Contemporary Reasoning Socialist Life Fate

Author:C. Wright Mills

“Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.”

Knows Giving Problem Political Term Accepting Moral Issues Trouble Giving Up Understood Not Giving Up Autonomy Ethos Practicality Do Not Give Up History Making

Book:C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

Source: C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings

“Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.”

People Giving Our Lives Revolution Fellows Democratic Prepared Workers Socialist Peasants Fellow Workers

Author:Fidel Castro

“If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.”

People Ifs Has Beens Able Strong Marxist

Author:Fidel Castro

“I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.”

People World States Causes United United States Sacrifice Revolution Victory Destruction Prepared Strikes Nuclear Imperialism Propose Cuban Launching Cuban Revolution

Author:Fidel Castro

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