Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Power, Reality, and Emergency

„For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.“

Charles Wright MillsCharles Wright Mills criticizes US authorities creating an endless emergency and a paranoid reality.
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Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist who examined modern societies and the role of intellectuals.

This quote criticizes a detached-from-reality attitude of US authorities who have constructed an endless emergency.


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Charles Wright Mills (1916–1962) was an American sociologist. His work examined postwar societies and the interaction of political, military, and economic elites. His best-known works include “The Power Elite,” “White Collar: The American Middle Classes,” and “The Sociological Imagination.”

Quote by Charles Wright Mills about America, conservatism, political ideology, and powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"America—a conservative country without any conservative ideology—appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America." Charles Wright Mills
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Charles Wright Mills quote about the American elite and lack of leadershipCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The American elite is not composed of representative men whose conduct and character constitute models for American imitation and aspiration. There is no set of men with whom members of the mass public can rightfully and gladly identify. In this fundamental sense, America is indeed without leaders. Yet such is the nature of the mass public’s morally cynical and politically unspecified distrust that it is readily drained off without real political effect. That this is so, after the men and events of the last thirty years, is further proof of the extreme difficulty of finding and of using in America today the political means of sanity for morally sane objectives." Charles Wright Mills
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Daniel J. Boorstin quote about America, dreams, and the threat of unrealityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality." Daniel J. Boorstin
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Quote by Edward Snowden about state of emergency and surveillance states outlasting coronavirusCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The state of emergency will tend to be extended more and more. Dangerous situations will be artificially prolonged. States and governments will begin to get used to this power. They will start to like it. The surveillance states that are currently being established will outlast the coronavirus!" Edward Snowden
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Quote about government criticism and national emergencies by Yuval Noah HarariCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In a situation when you feel threatened there is less room to criticize the government because then you are immediately labeled a traitor. Like this is war now. We’re in a national emergency. We all have to unite around the government and anybody who opposes that or criticizes the government is a traitor. [...] this is why very often even in a situation when there is no real threat leaders are manufacturing artificial threats." Yuval Noah Harari
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