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Born: 1916-05-28
Profession: Sociologist
Nation: American
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

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

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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

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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.

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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

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

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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

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The principal cause of war is war itself.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

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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.

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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.

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