Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision
can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with
the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of
money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
George Washington Carver
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
Anton Chekhov
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. Chesterton
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the
beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
G. K. Chesterton
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill
In every era, society must strike the right balance between the freedom businesses need to
compete for a market share and to make profits and the preservation of family and community values.
Hillary Clinton
Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of
time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage always has been, between a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Max Eastman
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus
z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge
without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
Self-deception operates both at the level of the individual mind, and in the collective awareness of the group.
To belong to a group of any sort, the tacit price of membership is to agree not to notice one's own feelings of
uneasiness and misgiving, and certainly not to question anything that challenges the group's way of doing things.
Daniel Goleman
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Don Herold
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a
philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
Women's presence ... has done more, I believe, than labor's strikes and struggles to
shorten the working day, and improve the conditions under which work is performed.
Edith Johnson
In civilised society, personal merit will not serve you so much as money will. Sir, you may make the experiment. Go into
the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you the most.
Samuel Johnson
I don't like unnecessary class distinctions. The Americans waste no time on them. They don't care who your father was. If you make
it to the top and it comes out that your father made moonshine in Tennessee they admire you even more. Now, I like that system.
Ian MacGregor
Management is a calling and people ought to be dedicated to it. British managers have far too much security.
A poor manager should be dumped. What's at stake is the happiness of society, not the comfort of managers.
Ian MacGregor
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
John Major
I do not support gay marriage. Marriage has religious and social connotations, and I consider marriage to be between a man and a woman.
Barack Obama
We are the 99 percent.
Occupy Wall Street slogan.
Occupy
Women are becoming enormously successful ... They're running their businesses on what we call a familial
model, a family, instead of a hierarchical top-down military model. They work with, not over or for.
Faith Popcorn
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
Dorothy L. Sayers
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of
my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.
George Soros
Planning ahead is a matter of class. The rich and even the middle class plan
for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem
Women are the real architects of society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Publilius Syrus
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
Mark Twain
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.
Voltaire
I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it
is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing.
Booker T. Washington
We are all in the gutter, but some of us find ourselves looking up at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Sociology
