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Quotes by Sociologist
"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."
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"The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion."
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"The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc."
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"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."
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"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study."
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"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."
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"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society."
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"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
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"If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning."
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"Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others."
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"American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets."
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"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."
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"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."
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"Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems."
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"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
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"It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should."
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"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests."
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"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
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"The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper."
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"Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth."
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"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
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"First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants."
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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."
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"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."
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"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."
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"No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing."
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"If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge."
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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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"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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"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country."
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"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."
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"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
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"It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring."
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"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
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"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy."
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
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"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
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"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."
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"If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art."
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"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."
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"For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role."
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"Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured."
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"For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests."
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