"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."

--

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.6, Oxford University Press

C. Wright Mills

#Two Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Promise Quotes

“I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.”
“What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.”
“What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job titleâ€”whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.”

Source : "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Marc Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.
“I don't think it's about who you play, I think it's about who you are.”
“I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.”
“Thoughts are like a train, they'll take us somewhere. Protect by filling with the word of God.”
“I got everybody on my side through comedy.”

You may also like:

Auguste Comte
Philosopher
Emile Durkheim
Sociologist
Gaetano Mosca
Political Scientist
Karl Marx
Philosopher
Max Weber
Sociologist
Peter L. Berger
Sociologist
Robert K. Merton
Sociologist of Science
Talcott Parsons
Sociologist
G. William Domhoff