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#sociology

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #sociology




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


— Philip Pullman


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Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight. ↗


— Union pour la Vérité


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What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is written to enrich the spirit; that novels have been conceived at the very least, to entertain us; and even, optimistically, that sociological solutions are a guide to solving something. Viewing the situation calmly, I realized that the first (poetry) was capable of impoverishing the richest spirit, the second of boring the most joyful, the third of confusing the most lucid. ↗


— Augusto Monterroso


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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 was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone? ↗


— Graham Greene


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O comportamento ritual não só revela realidades práticas e mundanas, é também um teatro vivo da psicologia colectiva e uma das mais ricas expressões da ideologia e crenças - mentalidade - de uma sociedade. Afinal de contas, como os antropólogos notaram, a religião é mais do que um padrão de relações sociais: é uma expressão da capacidade humana para imaginar a estrutura da sociedade. O ritual religioso não é apenas construção cultural: é uma forma de cognição que constrói modelos de realidade e paradigmas de comportamento. E dentro deste processo pelo qual a realidade é definida, o ritual da morte joga um papel central. ↗


— Victor Turner


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It takes centuries for sense to become common ↗


— Anthony Steyning


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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗


— Toni Morrison


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


— Graham Greene


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False fears are a plague, a modern plague! ↗


— Michael Crichton


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Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. ↗


— Isaac Asimov


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