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Quotes by Sociologist
"Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity."
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"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
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"That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way."
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"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
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"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."
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"The public school has become the established church of secular society."
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"In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level."
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"When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan."
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"Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales."
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"Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."
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"The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality."
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"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."
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"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
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"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."
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"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."
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"It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them."
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"Religion is love; in no case is it logic."
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"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism."
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"Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
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"The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia."
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"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."
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"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
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"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation."
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"But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism."
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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
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"If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly."
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"Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world."
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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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"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."
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"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
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"When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear."
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"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
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"The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right."
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"The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding."
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"In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful."
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"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
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"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."
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"Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed."
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"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."
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"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
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"Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society."
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"The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."
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"The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries."
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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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