Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory. — Raisa Gorbacheva 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
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
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno 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
Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry. — Denise Scott Brown Copy Share Image
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
“The lessons for sociologists of education that I draw from my comparison of the UK and South African cases are (i) that… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument… — Peter L. Berger 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
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
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
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
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
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.' — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked… — Paul Krugman 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
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
“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
