Sociology Quotes

Language is a social art.

~ Willard Van Orman Quine

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

~ Greta Christina

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

~ Ashley Montagu

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

~ Satoshi Kanazawa

Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

~ Susan Cain

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

~ Kathryn Stockett

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

~ J.b. Priestley

Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent

~ Anthony Steyning

It is only when you meet someoneof a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your ownbeliefs really are.

~ George Orwell

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.

~ George Orwell

But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctions away. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has no efficacy unless you grasp what it involves. The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am I, a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want to get rid of class-distinctions, but nearly everything I think and do is a result of class-distinctions. All my notions –notions of good and evil, of pleasant and unpleasant, of funny and serious, of ugly and beautiful–are essentially middle-class notions; my taste in books and food and clothes, my sense of honour, my table manners, my turns of speech, my accent, even the characteristic movements of my body, are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche about half-way up the social hierarchy.

~ George Orwell

But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctionsaway. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has noefficacy unless you grasp what it involves. The fact that has got to be faced isthat to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here amI, a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want toget rid of class-distinctions, but nearly everything I think and do is a result ofclass-distinctions. All my notions –notions of good and evil, of pleasant and unpleasant,of funny and serious, of ugly and beautiful–are essentially middle-classnotions; my taste in books and food and clothes, my sense of honour, my tablemanners, my turns of speech, my accent, even the characteristic movements ofmy body, are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special nicheabout half-way up the social hierarchy.

~ George Orwell

But who knows why we really do anything? Who knows why we do what we do when we do it? Why your local barista greeted you with a curt 'hi' instead of her usual, mellifluous-sounding 'hello' has a trillion justifications. So, why someone decides to commit suicide might take a while to explain, and a lifetime to begin comprehending...

~ Samuel Armen

The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.

~ Samuel Armen

She spoke to him of her problems, and that made him forget his own. She told him that he was intelligent, thoughtful, becoming, and deeply magnetic - everything he wanted so badly for her to see in him. Attention is the greatest gift when you're too afraid to pay it to yourself, the wind ruminates.

~ Samuel Armen

When you love someone you have chosen to relinquish a part of yourself in order to inherit a part of them, and what perpetuates that love is the feeling of confident appreciation for such a potentially debilitating trade. That's why heartbreak feels like a sudden void.

~ Samuel Armen

A society whose members are helpless need idols.

~ Erich Fromm

Society reproduces itself antagonistically.

~ Rudolf J. Siebert

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality[,] consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than an abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.“Psychoanalysis and sociology.” Pp. 37-39 inCritical theory and society: A reader, edited by S. Bronner and D. Kellner. New York: Routledge.

~ Erich Fromm

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

~ Idries Shah

The sportification process of bodily practices of certain society, generates new physical manifestations, essentially different, which will help in another process: the indoctrination of subjects with capital values. And this process happens in the dark, without people having consciousness of it.

~ Lucas Soares Adriano

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

~ Idries Shah

we live now in circumstances that encourage rather than discourage lying; evidence and activity are more easily concealed, and the need to rely on demeanor as an indicator of a person’s truthfulness is greater. And our evolutionary history has not prepared us to be very sensitive to the behavioral clues relevant to lying.

~ Clancy Martin

Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations state that we appease to each other's nature and in doing so, we by nature, seek to please.

~ Katandra Jackson Nunnally

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

~ Idries Shah

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

~ Robert Wright

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

~ Charles S. Weinblatt

...the only way out consists of using a social mask.This is why those under depression will smile more as well as make efforts to please and entertain compared to anyone else....If they could hide in public, and they do hide in other ways, both psychological and physical.The psychological feeling of being trapped comes afterwards from the need to have social life, and that's when the anti-social personality starts developing furthermore.

~ Mark Brightlife

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

~ Steven Pressfield

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

~ Steven Pressfield

Dehumanization isn’t a way of talking. It’s a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable.

~ David Livingstone Smith

Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.

~ Eraldo Banovac

You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The problem with capitalism is that we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible. And that's dangerous, he warns - we're not going to be able to exist in a global context if we are the bastards of our business.

~ Joel Bakan

To get away from one's working environment is; in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

~ Charles Horton Cooley

You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!

~ Dr. Vivencio Ballano

By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.

~ Matthew Desmond

No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

~ Matthew Desmond

Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.

~ Bob Torres