C. Wright Mills Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.

  C. Wright Mills

  Kings, Divine Right, People

  "Character and Social Structure". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1953.

• 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.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Personality, Doe

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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

  C. Wright Mills

  World, Hierarchy, Publicity

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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