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Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
— C. Wright Mills
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.
— John C. Wright
I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.
— John C. Wright
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
— C.D. Wright
For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not.
— John C. Wright
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
— William C. Wright
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
— C. Wright Mills
My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies
— C. Wright Mills
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
— C. Wright Mills
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[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.
— C. Wright Mills
D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.
— Robin Wright
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
— C. Wright Mills
I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.
— C. Wright Mills
History is the shank of the social sciences.
— C. Wright Mills
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
— C. Wright Mills
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
— C. Wright Mills
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?
— C. Wright Mills
Everyone in their car needs love.
— C.D. Wright
Being told that he was immune to flattery was the nicest thing he had heard someone say about him in a long time.
— John C. Wright
Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.
— John C. Wright
Poetry is a necessity of life,
— C.D. Wright
P4- the history that now effects everyman is world history
— C. Wright Mills
To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.
— C. Wright Mills
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
— William C. Wright
Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.
— C. Wright Mills
The future did not arrive.
— John C. Wright
The more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
— C. Wright Mills
In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. - The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 183
— John C. Wright
Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.
— Mabel Osgood Wright
If Vulcans had a church, they'd be Catholics.
— John C. Wright
The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.
— C. Wright Mills
Vows are powerful things," he said. "They set things in motion.
— John C. Wright
If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!
— Walter C. Wright
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
— C.D. Wright
I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.
— C.D. Wright
If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.
— C.D. Wright
The first kind builds character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.
— John C. Wright
The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.
— C. Walton Lillehei
Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape.
— John C. Wright
Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from
— John C. Wright
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
— C.D. Wright
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.
— C. Wright Mills
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
— C. Wright Mills
Son, different rules apply during the End of the World. I did not know what to say to that.
— John C. Wright
When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.
— John C. Wright
What if they found a trapdoor out of this dead universe? A hole? A black hole? A place where the tyranny of time and space couldn't reach?
— John C. Wright
Truth destroys the worst in man; pleasure destroys the best. If you love truth more than happiness, then open; otherwise, let rest." His
— John C. Wright
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[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .
— C. Wright Mills
The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.
— John C. Wright
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.
— C. Wright Mills
Pain has a funny way of focusing the mind. Only what hurts matters.
— John C. Wright
Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.
— John C. Wright
Truth does not become more or less true, whether those who know it are many or few.
— John C. Wright
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
— C.D. Wright
The principal cause of war is war itself.
— C. Wright Mills
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation — C.D. Wright
