547 Quotes About Sociology

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.

Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

We know more about the lives of celebrities, than the truth hidden in our wars.

And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.

Knowledge cannot be inherited nor can it simply be gifted.

On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

There is a simple rule regarding wisdom: those who have a superficial knowledge cannot be wise. On the contrary, wise people have broad knowledge. However, besides the acquired knowledge, wisdom arises from observation and contemplation over a longer period of time. Wisdom is, therefore, often the privilege of older people who have a broad knowledge and respectable experience. Feel free to ask such people for advice.

Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?

Las pocas personas que se atreven a cuestionar las prácticas y justificaciones del sistema social histórico en que viven no solamente son valientes sino también temerarias, dado que seguramente el grupo se volverá contra ellas y con la mayor frecuencia las castigará por descarriadas inadmisibles.