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• As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

  Jane Smiley

  Political, Moral, Conversation

  Jane Smiley (2011). “Ordinary Love and Good Will”, p.108, Anchor

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• If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Giving Up, Independent

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Believe, Clothes

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• There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Gay, Years, Substance

  "“A Historic Moment”: California Couple on Decades-Long Legal Struggle for Marriage Equality". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. (1926)

  Arthur E. Kennelly

  Science, Important, United States

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• The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

  William Graham Sumner

  Character, Men, Views

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.107, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman, naked, her body oiled, writhing on the floor while fondling herself intimately... I watched for some time --- riveted by the sociological significance of it all.

  Robert Bork

  New York, Naked, Television

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• The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

  Gus Van Sant

  War, Climbing, Shopping

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 22, 2003.

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• Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Thinking, Vanity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

  Kenneth Clark

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Kenneth B. Clark (1988). “Prejudice and Your Child”, p.37, Wesleyan University Press

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• According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Religious, Views, Historical

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• I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science, could become a dogma, can be explained only on sociological grounds.

  Ludwig von Bertalanffy

  Facts, Dogma, Criteria

  "Perspectives on general system theory: scientific-philosophical studies".

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• Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Believe, Eye

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns me because our homeland is not - we see now, is not immune from this kind of dastardly attack. And so I worry about that a lot.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Worry, Political

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Writing, Routine, Research

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• In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .

  James Hillman

  Past, Race, Class

  "From Little Acorns: A Radical New Psychology". Interview with Scott London, weww.thesunmagazine.org. March 1998.

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• My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Photography, Culture, Looks

  "Lauren Greenfield: 'It's everything the British love to hate about Americans'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.

  Bob Torres

  Army, Order, People

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• I think as I have gotten older, my feelings about my role in the culture as a writer, and me specifically, has changed, and has become more degraded and marginalized. This may be a more personal and psychological than a sociological insight, but I feel more vulnerable.

  Mark Leyner

  Thinking, Feelings, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mean, Rejection, Weight

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• Some psychological and sociological conditioning occurs in every man's life and this affects the decisions he makes. But we must resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Decision, Sin

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no doubt that...in its biological application, at any rate, this statement is one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man through his misbegotten gift of articulate speech.

  Earnest Hooton

  Men, Race, Doubt

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• The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Years, Political

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.

  Emile Durkheim

  Reality, Practice, Criticism

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