Top Sociology Quotes

A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge.

Be careful about financial offers that often come by email. Before you respond to such an offer, ask yourself: do I really need a new problem?

Sociology Definition

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

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.

Theory -the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees- theory can be a dew that rises from earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to earth over and over. But if it doesn't...

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

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

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

عندما هدأ صراخها، نامت قرب توماس وأمسكت بيده طوال الليل.منذ كانت في الثامنة وهي تغفو جامعة يديها ومتخيلة أنها تمسك الرجل الذي تحبه، رجل حياتها. كان مفهوماً إذاً أن تشد بهذا العزم على يد توماس.

We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing ex...

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.

Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

For some reason I was reluctant to ask anybody what had happened. I hate being the person who always doesn't know what's going on and has to ask somebody; it always seems like everybody else knows wha...

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that...