In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.