I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.' — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus. — Peter S. Prescott Copy Share Image
The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit… — Richard Wall Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times.… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting… — Astrud Gilberto Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell. — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory. — Raisa Gorbacheva Copy Share Image
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image