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...

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

Have a little sociological beano. As you said – in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration...

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

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American’s great cities, appalling.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

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...

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...

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives...

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

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

I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but in a country where millions of dollars are spent on nuclear weapons, corporate...

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...

Miss Taylor says kids that are colored can’t go to my school cause they’re not smart enough.” I come round the counter then. Lift her chin up and smooth back her funny-looking hair. “You think...

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

It is culture that is the bully.

Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

To recognize and comprehend what influences us and others is to function with purpose.

To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who rejoice in the ‘stay of execution’ of their factory thanks to big new...

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

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

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

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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,...

It takes centuries for sense to become common

If man–if each one of us–abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as...

valores”: relaciones libidinosas con la mercancía, con los artefactos motorizados agresivos, con la estética falsa del supermercado.

There is so much you don’t know about a person. I wonder if I could’ve made her days a little bit easier, if I’d tried. If I’d treated her a little nicer. Wasn’t that the...

I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.

It’s daft, locking us up,” said Nanny. “I’d have had us killed.””That’s because you’re basically good,” said Magrat. “The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 “Any large company composed of wholly...

Love abounds where more attention is paid to your value and less to your shortcomings

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive.

As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.

The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn’t it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it...

To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one’s ability to learn something new that...

We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

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.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Pour la majorité des gens, le physique compte en amitié et même pour les relations les plus élémentaires….je parle de cette chose si vague et si importante que l’on nomme physionomie. AU premier coup d’oeil,...

For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not...

In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his...

Lefebvre summarises this march of clock-time through society and nature (1991: 95–6). He argues that the lived time experienced in and through nature has gradually disappeared. Time is no longer something that is visible and...