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Quotes by Sociologist
"The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers."
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"Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession."
16
"In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum."
16
"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you."
16
"Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth."
16
"Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards."
15
"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."
15
"The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917."
15
"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."
15
"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."
15
"Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies."
15
"Leadership does not depend on being right."
15
"For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe."
15
"When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans."
15
"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."
15
"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."
15
"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."
15
"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."
15
"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."
15
"America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub."
15
"There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
15
"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."
15
"You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country."
15
"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
15
"The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values."
15
"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world."
15
"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."
15
"The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others."
15
"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."
15
"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."
15
"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
15
"We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations."
15
"Congress requires states to draw single-member districts."
15
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
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15
"While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance."
14
"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
14
"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."
14
"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."
14
"When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God."
14
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
14
"There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God."
14
"Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome."
14
"We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery."
14
"And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words."
14
"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor."
14
"When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults."
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