Sociologist Quotes

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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