The Task For Sociology Is

Jews And Gypsies Were Well-nigh The Only Diasporas In 19th Century Europe. Now Go To London, It Is A Collection Of Diasporas.

All The Skills Which I Have Acquired During My Sociological Life Allow Me To Diagnose And Explain What Is Going On, But Not To Predict What Will Happen.

Every Interpretation Is But An Introduction To Another Interpretation, And That Is How Talmud Pages Are Printed.

For One To Be Free There Must Be At Least Two. Freedom Signifies A Social Relation, An Asymmetry Of Social Conditions: Essentially It Implies Social Difference--it Presumes And Implies The Presence Of Social Division. Some Can Be Free Only In So Far As There Is A Form Of Dependence They Can Aspire To Escape.

Ingeniously, Capitalism Discovered That The Economy May Be Moved Not By Satisfying Existing Needs, But By Creating New Ones.