Sociologist Quotes

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
You are born modern, you do not become so.
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
Leadership does not depend on being right.
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
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.
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