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Quotes by Sociologist
"While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance."
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"Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results."
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"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive."
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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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"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
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"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."
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"I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible."
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"All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies."
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"Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history."
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"If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction."
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"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life."
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"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
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"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
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"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."
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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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"Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others."
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"Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love."
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"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
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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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"Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given."
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"We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery."
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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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"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."
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"America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections."
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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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"Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world."
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"To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them."
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"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects."
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"Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't."
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"A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks."
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"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
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"They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society."
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"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."
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"Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?"
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"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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"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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"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."
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"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
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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 manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter."
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"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
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"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
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"If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited."
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"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."
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"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
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"I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties."
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"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."
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