Durkheim Social Facts Quotes

#1. The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.

Emile Durkheim

#2. One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.

Robert Jay Lifton

#3. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least to a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.

Jon Ronson

#4. Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#5. Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Jerome Kern

#6. What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. When public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut.

Edmund Phelps

#8. (However, animals apparently dream differently than we do. In the dolphin, for example, only one hemisphere at a time sleeps in order to prevent drowning, because they are air-breathing mammals, not fish. So if they dream, it is probably in only one hemisphere at a time.)

Michio Kaku

#9. I like the authentic punk dance you did there. It's like a child dizzy off lemonade

Russell Howard