“But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity;… — Nicolas de Condorcet 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
“…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns -… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Opportunism towards knowledge is a utilitarian demand that knowledge must be immediately practical. Just like with sociology where we hope its purpose… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
I moved to Philadelphia to go to school at Eastern partly because I wanted to study the Bible and I also went… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to… — Gail Omvedt Copy Share Image
“Those who do not complicate life choose the easiest way to achieve happiness.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.” — Peter N. Stearns 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
“...the only way out consists of using a social mask. This is why those under depression will smile more as well as… — Mark Brightlife 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
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image