Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

I was married and divorced at 23.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves

We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is good for us, but because it is the way things are.