Sociology Quotes

"Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words." "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." "Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality." "Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe." "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose" "Religion is the opium of the masses." "Our elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith." "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas" "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." "People are good or bad because of their environments" "Human freedom is an artifact of the organization of human society. " "Human nature is the same in all professions." "The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority" "The critique of modernity has to recognize its ambiguous structure." "God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture." "Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power." "The fundamental problem with the human species is an excess."