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

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

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

The principal cause of war is war itself.

What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal milieux we are required to look beyond them. And the number and variety of such structural changes increase as the institutions within which we live become more embracing and more intricately connected with one another. To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux. To be able to do that is to possess the sociological imagination

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

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