Sociologist Quotes

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
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.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.
Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.
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