Sociology Quotes

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

— Graham Greene

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

— C. Wright Mills

“It takes centuries for sense to become common”

— Anthony Steyning

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

— Stephen King

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

— Michael Crichton

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

— Jean Baudrillard

“it’s not the technology, it’s the sociology”.”

— Dwight McNeill

“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”

— Erol Ozan

We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

— Les Back

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

— Kamaru Usman

“There is nothing more remarkable in human sociology than our attitude towards the institution of marriage.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

— Frank Knight

“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.”

— Ernest Becker

“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think…

— Charles Horton Cooley

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

— Bertrand Russell

“Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when repairing the consequences of…

— Eraldo Banovac

I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so…

— Lawrence Jackson

“There is no higher priority for those who chose a university career than acting in the students’ best interest. That’s because students…

— Eraldo Banovac

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to…

— Oscar Wilde

“Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.”

— Greta Christina

“In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the…

— Anonymous

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a…

— Nikki Giovanni

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the…

— Ralph Ellison

In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and…

— Robert Anasi

“In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl,…

— Peter Hitchens

“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch…

— Erin McCarthy

“In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he…

— Jean Itard

“Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a…

— Frigyes Karinthy

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as…

— Tom Wolfe

“At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has…

— Lionel Trilling

“As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip…

— H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman

“Once the primary bonds which gave security to the individual are severed, once the individual faces the world outside of himself as…

— Erich Fromm

“In 2006 the federal government expended more than $100 million over a five-year period for marriage and fatherhood education. Interestingly, it is…

— Patricia Dixon

Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories…

— George Elliott Clarke

“The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory of human sexuality. Carefree sex…

— Steven Pinker

“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which…

— Alain de Botton

“We see the puppets dancing on their miniature stage, moving up and down as the strings pull them around, following the prescribed…

— Peter Berger

The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative…

— Hannah Arendt

“I think men that have not been in polygamy, and I was one of them, fantasize about polygamy. Fantasize. It is fantasy.…

— Patricia Dixon