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

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

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.

What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

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