"No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society."

Sociology, Society, Diversity, Individual, Complexity

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"What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated."

Joan Didion, American Author

Sociology, Class, Change, Modernity, Observation

"Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a primitive, irrational urge, nor is it a "pathology" except in the metaphorical sense of a condition that everyone would like to eliminate. Instead, it is a near-inevitable outcome of the dynamics of self-interested, rational social organisms."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

Sociology, Violence, Analysis, Society, Reason

"Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Sociology, Society, Family, Change, Freedom

"Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Sociology, Family, Irony, Economics, Structure

"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."

DaShanne Stokes, American Author

Sociology, Prejudice, Fear, Hate, Observation

"No man in his senses will dance."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Sociology, Behavior, Observation, Humor, Social

"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Sociology, Gender, Desire, Humanity, Equality

"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."

Malcolm X, American Activist

Sociology, Survival, Observation, Life, Struggle

"At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued."

Brene Brown, American Researcher

Sociology, Society, Acceptance, Belonging, Rejection

"No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain."

Malcolm X, American Activist

Sociology, Society, Identity, Truth, Observation

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"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."

Leadership

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

Military

"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."

Corruption

"The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country."

Governance

"To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January 4, 1957, this sentence: "We still do not know at any level that really matters, why Wilson took the fateful decision to bring the United States into the First World War," I would like to say hello."

History

"If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident."

Science

"Duty was not untinged by ambition."

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"What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated."

"Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned."

"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."

"No man in his senses will dance."

"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women."

"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."

"At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued."

"No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain."

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"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."

"The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country."

"One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral."

"A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit."

"He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him."

"If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident."

"Duty was not untinged by ambition."