The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles..

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values..

Prestige is the shadow of money and power..

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

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 ac….

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

For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot….

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

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and….

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, firs….

The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackp….

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently ….

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of f….

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It ….

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with….

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology..

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 ….

Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic etho….

The principal cause of war is war itself..

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

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