Sociology Quotes

[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.

The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.

The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.

A society whose members are helpless need idols.

Society reproduces itself antagonistically.

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.

Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.

You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!

You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!

No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

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We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

There’s no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.

The strictest judges are ignorant people.

Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!

The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.

Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.