The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

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?

Truth is the preferred weapon of God, and censorship is the most abused tool of the Devil.

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to draw the other person out.