Sociology Quotes
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.
There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.
I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.
If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.
Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment.
Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.
An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.
A wise man does not give quick answers to complex questions – he observes, analyzes and contemplates.
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
Be careful about financial offers that often come by email. Before you respond to such an offer, ask yourself: do I really need a new problem?
They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.
At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.
The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.
Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.
As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.
Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.
The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity.
Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.
I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.
The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.
… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.
It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.
I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.
Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive.
The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.
They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."--"Mr. Z
To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
