Sociologist Quotes

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
America faces a new race that has awakened.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
But in action, one defies one's character.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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