Famous quotes by Sociologists

"I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear"

Daniel Bell, Sociologist

"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism"

Daniel Bell, Sociologist

"We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has"

Deborah Tannen, Sociologist

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Affluence creates poverty"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"A gloss is a total system of perception and language"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

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