Community Quote by Richard Jenkins

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

— David Brooks

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

— Nick Sagan

“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different, as a…

— Michel Foucault

When a stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate his category and attributes, his 'social identity'…

— Erving Goffman

“The sexual segregation of the labour force, and the preservation of workplaces as arenas for fraternal solidarity, have remained remarkably stable during the twentieth…

— Carole Pateman

“I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.”

— Petek Kabakci

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to…

— James P Comer

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…

— Alan Watts

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality…

— George Bernard Shaw

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

— Havelock Ellis

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane