Sociology Quotes - Page 6

There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.

Nearly every inspirational story out there is about a person who breaks away from his or her background or community – where the best is clearly defined and is not them – and goes off and becomes the best somewhere else. - Of Effortless Effort

Amrita Sarkar

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

O comportamento ritual não só revela realidades práticas e mundanas, é também um teatro vivo da psicologia colectiva e uma das mais ricas expressões da ideologia e crenças - mentalidade - de uma sociedade. Afinal de contas, como os antropólogos notaram, a religião é mais do que um padrão de relações sociais: é uma expressão da capacidade humana para imaginar a estrutura da sociedade. O ritual religioso não é apenas construção cultural: é uma forma de cognição que constrói modelos de realidade e paradigmas de comportamento. E dentro deste processo pelo qual a realidade é definida, o ritual da morte joga um papel central.

Victor Turner

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.

Alain de Botton

Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored and the more you immerse yourself in light, the less you will feel the darkness. There is more to life than nothingness. And cynicism. And nihilism. And selfishness. And glorious isolation. Be selfish with yourself, but live your life through your immortal acts, acts that engrain your legacy onto humanity. Transcend your fears and follow yourself into the void instead of letting yourself get eaten up by entropy and decay. Freedom is being yourself without permission. Be soft and leave a lasting impression on everybody you meet

Mohadesa Najumi

Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches

Mohadesa Najumi

You are not always right. It’s not always about being right. The best thing you can offer others is understanding. Being an active listener is about more than just listening, it is about reciprocating and being receptive to somebody else. Everybody has woes. Nobody is safe from pain. However, we all suffer in different ways. So learn to adapt to each person, know your audience and reserve yourself for people who have earned the depths of you

Mohadesa Najumi

I am a habitual rule-breaker

Mohadesa Najumi

Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society

Mohadesa Najumi

I have been at war with parts of myself for so long

Mohadesa Najumi

All my life I have heard the term happiness thrown around like a buzzword as if it is something to be gained. As I have previously expressed, I do not view happiness as a tangible thing. To me happinesss is the elimination of accumulated darkness. Self-sustaining happiness comes from contentment of acceptance, compassion and sympathetic joy, qualities which cannot be developed like a muscle, but rather they must be actualized by the removal of fetters in the mind

Mohadesa Najumi

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal

Mohadesa Najumi

I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic

Mohadesa Najumi

In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of accumulating impressive amounts of knowledge within a relatively short period of time. Nevertheless, even the greatest genius possesses only a small fraction of all knowledge known by mankind. Finally, the following question arises: how large is all the existing knowledge in comparison to the space of ignorance?

Eraldo Banovac

When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge.

Eraldo Banovac

Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment.

Eraldo Banovac

Kids, no matter how big your problems are – ask your parents for help and advice.

Eraldo Banovac

Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.

Eraldo Banovac

The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.

Eraldo Banovac

Every fool has an idea how to change the world. Wise people think about how to improve the world around them.

Eraldo Banovac

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Idries Shah

A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone.

Eraldo Banovac

Never lie. Firstly, you will be caught in the lie sooner or later. Secondly, count on problems when repairing the consequences of the lie. Therefore, always tell the truth no matter how unpleasant it is.

Eraldo Banovac

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

Eraldo Banovac

A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of what is morally right or wrong.

Eraldo Banovac

In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the same, but had a for sale sign beside higher prices, and you'll have either Amazon or Craiglist.

Anonymous

The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.

Eraldo Banovac

Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.

Eraldo Banovac

Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement.

Eraldo Banovac

In reality, there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The rules of social interaction determine one's freedom.

Eraldo Banovac

A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.

Eraldo Banovac

We should enjoy every minute we live today because who knows if we will have a chance to do so tomorrow.

Eraldo Banovac

The people who overcome their fears are the ones who can achieve their dreams.

Eraldo Banovac

True friendship doesn't include jealousy.

Eraldo Banovac

A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all.

Eraldo Banovac

Do not look for company at all costs, and especially do not allow loneliness to lead you to fickle love or false friendship.

Eraldo Banovac

Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.

Eraldo Banovac

Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?

Eraldo Banovac

The older the friendship, the stronger the trust.

Eraldo Banovac

On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

Guy Debord

The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society of the spectacle expropriates everyday life, the time of our lives. The real enemy is not an object apart from life. It is the organization of life by powers detached from it and turned against it. The apparatus, not its personnel, is the real enemy. But it is by and through the apparatchiks and everyone else participating in the system that domination and deception are made manifest. The totality is the organization of all against each and each against all. It includes all the policemen, all the social workers, all the office workers, all the nuns, all the op-ed columnists, all the drug kingpins from Medellin to Upjohn, all the syndicalists and all the situationists.

Bob Black

It is culture that is the bully."

Sharon Lee

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

David Richo

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

Bob Black

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Fulton J. Sheen

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