Emile Durkheim Sociology Quotes

#1. We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#2. The sacred transformation; change life!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Leon Krier

#4. Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

Nellie L. McClung

#5. When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

Emile Durkheim

#6. I love to tease men with my legs.

Eartha Kitt

#7. I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.

Sid Vicious

#8. Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

Ben Katchor

#9. If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

#10. There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

Emile Durkheim

#11. It's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul ...

John Geddes

#12. Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Emile Durkheim

#13. Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

John Rhys-Davies

#14. It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Emile Durkheim