Sociologists Study Quotes & Sayings

Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage. — Charlie Weis

Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule. — Robert K. Merton

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game. — Ewen Bremner

The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts. — David L. Felten

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. — C.S. Lewis

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee. — Flannery O'Connor

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us. — Al Jourgensen

I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty. — Stephanie Oakes

We are as humans essentially products of our hardware - that is an insight that I've taken with me into the trading side. — Roy Niederhoffer

There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign. — Peter Kreeft

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures. — F. Matthias Alexander

Funny, that we always told stories with wolves and beasts and demons as villains, but in real life it seemed the humans were always the worst enemies. You could be your own villain. — Liesl Shurtliff

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals. — Richard Wall

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Do you know what nearly all the sociologists say today in their study of young people? The greatest problem facing young people today is not sex - it is boredom. — Billy Graham

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society. — Mario Bunge

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer. — Katherine Paterson