Top Social Science Quotes

This book consists not only of my stories of mistakes, rather it’s all our stories of mistakes and heart aches. It’s the plight of all of us who were rebelling, and kicking against the social messes w...

A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.

...first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simu...

Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Ma...

Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions.

I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after th...

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

on "idea technology"--Science creates ideas, science creates ways of understanding. And in the social sciences, ways of understanding ourselves. And they have an enormous influence on how we think, wh...

What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!

Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in ma...

Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

I write for the beauty of the printed word"from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO