C. Wright Mills Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Power, Circles

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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

  C. Wright Mills

  Fate, Men, Decision

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.182, Oxford University Press

• 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.

  C. Wright Mills

  Order, Decision, Political

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

• 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 of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Men, Keys

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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