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Sociology Quotes

"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture."

"Our elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith."

"Human freedom is an artifact of the organization of human society. "

"The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority"

"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality."

"People are good or bad because of their environments"

"Human nature is the same in all professions."

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose"

"The critique of modernity has to recognize its ambiguous structure."

"Western culture is a persona or a mask."

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but their social being that determines their consciousness"

"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."

"Religion is the opium of the masses."

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