I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

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!

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

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?

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.

Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

Nothing's better than a picnic.