Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

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

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

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.

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 the financial hub.

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

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