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

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

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.

C. Wright Mills
Independent, Fate, Men
"The Sociological Imagination". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1959.

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

C. Wright Mills
Fate, Years, Best Year
C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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