Top 40 Society Sociology Quotes
#1. A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.
Conway Zirkle
#2. History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B.R. Ambedkar
#3. The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who scraped his car and dissed him in front of a crowd.
Steven Pinker
#4. Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.
Anonymous
#5. A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B.R. Ambedkar
#7. Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened female
as both auspicious and dangerous.
Srinivasan
#8. No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn.
Steven Pinker
#9. Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.
Clifton Daniel
#10. Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.
Abraham Kuyper
#12. There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.
Satoshi Kanazawa
#13. It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.
Virginia Petrucci
#15. The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
Ashley Montagu
#16. The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share.
Eli Pariser
#17. A society whose members are helpless need idols.
Erich Fromm
#18. Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people
Cesar Hidalgo
#19. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
Ludwig Von Mises
#20. Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our
beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.
Greta Christina
#21. I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B.R. Ambedkar
#22. Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
B.R. Ambedkar
#23. Life is a delicate dance. We live in a society that governs we all get along. The invisible fine print, the unwritten rules and regulations state that we appease to each other's nature and in doing so, we by nature, seek to please.
Katandra Jackson Nunnally
#25. History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick
Edward Hallett Carr
#26. We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
Philip Pullman
#27. For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Oscar Wilde
#28. The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Fulton J. Sheen
#29. Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills
#30. There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.
Manny Rayner
#32. Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.
Idries Shah
#34. Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.
Isaac Asimov
#35. In today's society conformity is more of a necessity than an option.
Johan Coetzer
#36. [Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
Angela Y. Davis
#37. 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
#38. I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.
Abhijit Naskar
#39. 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
#40. Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none more dangerous than the attempt to integrate the whole of society in one vast, permanent action group.
Bertrand De Jouvenel
