Quotes of Sociology - somelinesforyou

“ Durable peace in Afghanistan would only be possible through the establishment of a broad-based multiethnic government representing the demographic contours of Afghanistan freely chosen by the Afghans without outside interference. ”

- Pervez Musharraf

“ The demographics of the state allows for another team. Given the projected growth of the state and the demographics, I think (San Antonio) would support (a team). ”

- Nolan Ryan

“ Again, the only trends that interest the corporate boys and girls are demographic and businesslike. I doubt the think tank reports interest them much. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ As the demographic makeup of this pool changes, it seems entirely likely that the under-representation of minorities to which you refer in your letter will also change. ”

- William Rehnquist

“ Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. ”

- Iris Murdoch

“ Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. ”

- Sid Vicious

“ Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed. ”

- Max Weber

“ We're going to have the first one, and then we'll see how it goes. We started the Texas Book Festival six years ago in Austin, and it's become institutionalized as an annual event at the Texas capitol. So I expect this will be very successful here. ”

- Laura Bush

“ Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture. ”

- Jonathan Raban

“ John Paul Sartre became a hero in literature, philosophy, sociology and political science even though his popularity largely depended on his politics, and he was wrong on the most important issues of his time, championing Marxism in spite of the tyranny it spawned. ”

- Suzanne Fields
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