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.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

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

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

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures

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