People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is no highway to success. Therefore, be prepared for difficulties.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.” — Charles S. Weinblatt Copy Share Image
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.” — Charles E. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.” — Eraldo Banovac 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
“Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign… — Anthony Steyning Copy Share Image
Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal… — Eraldo Banovac 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
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and… — Julie Banks Lewis Copy Share Image
“No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
“The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good… — David Carson Copy Share Image
I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Guilty people apologize and also take steps to avoid repetition. Shame, in contrast, is a more global emotion, which can emerge in… — Peter N. Stearns Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I’ve always been able to tell a lot about people by whether they ask me about my scar. Most people never ask,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I think men that have not been in polygamy, and I was one of them, fantasize about polygamy. Fantasize. It is fantasy.… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
“Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent.… — A.J. Withers Copy Share Image
“We see the puppets dancing on their miniature stage, moving up and down as the strings pull them around, following the prescribed… — Peter Berger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image