Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly,… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Once the primary bonds which gave security to the individual are severed, once the individual faces the world outside of himself as… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“What all of this suggests is that we need a more complex understanding of identities. If we identify on the basis of… — Arlene Stein Copy Share Image
“It is culture that is the bully." Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation ” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't be fooled by the white hair, because those scoundrels also get older.” — Rui Barbosa Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
