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

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.

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

you can find better than me, worst than me. But you'll never find someone exactly like me.

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety . . . we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.

I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.