Top Sociology Quotes

It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the la...

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

Sociology Definition

(n.) That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.

Language has everything to do with oppression and liberation. When the word "victory" means conquer vs. harmony and the word "equality" means homogenization vs. unity in/through diversity, then the li...

Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim

I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

الوقت الإنساني لا يسير في شكل دائري بل يتقدم في خط مستقيم. من هنا، لا يمكن للإنسان أن يكون سعيداً لأن السعادة رغبة في التكرار.

A happy man doesn't reconsider life.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separa...

Every fool has an idea how to change the world. Wise people think about how to improve the world around them.

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

لا أحد يعرف ذلك بصورة أفضل مما يعرف السياسيون. فما أن يروا آلة تصوير على مقربة منهم حتى يهبُّوا راكضين إثر أول طفل يصادفونه فيحملونه في أذرعتهم ويقبلونه في خده. «الكيتش» هو المثال الأعلى لكل السياسيين...

فكّر توماس: إن مضاجعة امرأة والنوم معها رغبتان ليستا مختلفتين فحسب بل متناقضتان أيضاً. فالحب لا يتجلى بالرغبة في ممارسة الجنس (وهذه الرغبة تنطبق على جملة لا تحصى من النساء) ولكن بالرغبة في النوم المشت...

وسعادتهما لم تكن على الرغم من الحزن بل بفضله.

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any pos...

Wherever you work, work hard and educate yourself continuously. You must never forget social welfare, ethics and honesty. However, there is no guarantee for your career progression. Therefore, don't e...

Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.