Sociology Quotes
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Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.
— Eraldo Banovac
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
— Steven Pressfield
Society reproduces itself antagonistically.
— Rudolf J. Siebert
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
— Pierre Bourdieu
We ... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.
— Sherry Turkle
The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
— Charles E. Rosenberg
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.
— Eric Stonestreet
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
— Thomas Sowell
They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be.""Mr. Z — Kurt Vonnegut
Every society has the criminals that it deserves.
— Havelock Ellis
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
— B.R. Ambedkar
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.
— Brian Solis
Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment.
— Eraldo Banovac
Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.
— Eraldo Banovac
Language is a social art.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.
— Eraldo Banovac
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
— C. Wright Mills
If you cannot solve a problem, ask someone who knows.
— Eraldo Banovac
With sociology one can do anything and call it work
— Malcolm Bradbury
Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.
— Charles S. Weinblatt
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
— Steven Pressfield
Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.
— Frank Knight
A happy man doesn't reconsider life.
— Eraldo Banovac
In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.
— Eraldo Banovac
A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge.
— Eraldo Banovac
Managers who insist that employees produce heaps of papers should know that such an approach may result in sloppy implementation.
— Eraldo Banovac
We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
— D.W. Winnicott
To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.
— Mark David Henderson
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
— Graham Greene
My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.
— Vilfredo Pareto
One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
— Graham Greene
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
— Christopher Dawson
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
— Pierre L. Van Den Berghe
Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?
— C. Wright Mills
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
— W. H. Auden
Being blinded in love and friendship is a common mistake.
— Eraldo Banovac
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
— Denise Scott Brown
We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people
— Nikki Giovanni
A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.
— Conway Zirkle
I set free the phantoms of my imagination.
— Frigyes Karinthy
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
— Malcolm Gladwell
In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.
— John Harsanyi
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
— Emile Durkheim
Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.
— Vikram Roy
There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.
— Manny Rayner
Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
— Idries Shah
In reality, there is no highway to success. Therefore, be prepared for difficulties.
— Eraldo Banovac
Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.
— Eraldo Banovac
I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.
— Abhijit Naskar
Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.
— Christopher Henry Dawson
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
— Richard Russo
I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.
— Ron Moody
Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.
— Frigyes Karinthy
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
— Charles Dickens
Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge.
— Eraldo Banovac
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
— Stephen King
Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.
— Archie Lee
As a general rule ... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
— Alexandre Dumas
By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.
— Matthew Desmond
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
— Harold Rosenberg
Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.
— Hortense Calisher
Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened femaleas both auspicious and dangerous. — Srinivasan
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
— Philip Pullman
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
— Henri Poincare
An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.
— Eraldo Banovac
In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.
— Eraldo Banovac
Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course ... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.
— Michael Apted
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.
— Roselee Goldberg
Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people
— Cesar Hidalgo
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
— Clifford Geertz
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
— B.R. Ambedkar
Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.
— Albion Woodbury Small
It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.
— Virginia Petrucci
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
— Oscar Wilde
A person with a big ego usually knows very little.
— Eraldo Banovac
