All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

Trust and be patient. You are making it happen, in your own way, it its own time.

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

It's so hard when I have to and so easy when I want to.

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

You can't be that good; you work for me.

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.