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“There is no end of history, no ultimate primacy, no necessary continued progress, for the unintended consequences of human action constantly create new interstitial problems, plural outcomes are always possible, and human beings have the capacity to choose well or badly, for good or ill, as we have seen repeatedly in this volume.”
― Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945-2011

“The history of Rome is the most fascinating historical laboratory available to
sociologists. It provides a 700-year stretch of written records and archaeological remains.”
― Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760

“The Mad People

In the electronic age every nutcase
with a laptop is writing a masterpiece.
They spend their nights locked up in chat rooms
and emerge with red eyes and love poems.”
― Immanuel Mifsud, Confidential Reports

“Geen man zal ooit een groot man zijn als hij niet ook een vrouw durft te zijn.”
― Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Alkibiades