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.

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

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

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.

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.

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

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

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

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

... Desire baffles knowledge and power.

A non-GMO Mom is an avid researcher, a conscientious protector, and the most effective teacher of natural health.

It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

Cairo is in a state of becoming… We just don't know what it's becoming yet.

If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.

I'd love to play a femme fatale. And I wouldn't mind working with George Clooney.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.