Karl Mannheim Quotes

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.