11 quotes found
Sociologist · American
American sociologist
“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”
“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.”
“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”
“Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.”
“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.”
“Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.”
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. ”
“I see the tasks of social sciences to discover what kinds of order actually do exist in the whole range of the behavior of human beings; what kind of functional relationships between different part...”
“The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis of parts to the analysis of the whole constitutes...”
“The preponderant weight of economic power in the Constitutional Convention, while conceding the outward forms of political democracy, went on at once to curb the exercise of the very power it had j...”
“Liberal democracy has never dared face the fact that industrial capitalism is an intensely coercive form of organization of society that cumulatively constrains men and all of their institutions to...”
