547 Quotes About Sociology

As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

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

But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.

In monetary parlance, there are three types of people - who know how to make money from money (rich); who earn and spend (middle class); and those who don’t know either and remain poor. Their percentages vary from country to country.

Information and communication technologies have changed the way of life completely. Nowadays, many people reach for their smart phones and/or turn their computers on as soon as they wake up. They look at the news on social networks and check e-mails, before they get dressed or have breakfast.

A notable politician once said that it takes a village to raise a child. She forgot that it takes a family to raise a village. And the destruction of the family, largely due to policies and movements that she supports, has razed the village to the ground.

I don’t really like organizations where people are “deemed” things.

Granting that there is some truth to the theory that defects in society give rise to the emergence of criminals, I still maintain that those who use this theory as a defense of criminality are overlooking the fact that there are many people in this defective society who survive without resorting to crime. The argument to the contrary is pure sophistry.

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.