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Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

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

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

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

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

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

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

History is the shank of the social sciences.

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

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

Freedom is measured by the amount of control you have over the things upon which you are dependant.

The more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

P4- the history that now effects everyman is world history

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.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

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

The principal cause of war is war itself.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.