Clarity Quote by Arthur Stinchcombe

“Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is “the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires.”14”

— Daniel Goleman

“Social theorists may be considered as belonging to the Zuni-like culture of scholars. Such cultures select persons who have repressed their emotions in the…

— Thomas J. Scheff

I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the…

— George Ritzer

“Fredo’s vagueness was born of ignorance, not discretion. Roth”

— Mark Winegardner

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is involved in…

— George Orwell

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness…

— Steven Pinker

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The future gets no say in who we are.

— Buddy Wakefield

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

— Sinclair Lewis

“Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I…

— Don DeLillo

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“And much like yours, its vagueness left to different interpretations, which led to war after war.”

— Wendy Higgins