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Quotes by Sociologist
"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."
5
"Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."
5
"When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan."
5
"For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships."
5
"Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real."
5
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
Life,
5
"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."
5
"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
5
"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."
5
"Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage."
5
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
5
"The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation."
5
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
5
"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
5
"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
5
"However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home."
5
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
5
"In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies."
5
"Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public."
5
"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
5
"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
5
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
5
"Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power."
5
"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."
5
"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
5
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
Time,
5
"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."
5
"If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives."
4
"One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category."
4
"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."
4
"For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth."
4
"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
4
"In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief."
4
"The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917."
4
"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."
4
"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."
4
"It is in games that many men discover their paradise."
4
"The point of cities is multiplicity of choice."
4
"In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events."
4
"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."
4
"Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies."
4
"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."
4
"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
4
"The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis."
4
"There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God."
4
"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."
4
"Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term."
4
"Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome."
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