We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
J.B. PriestleyTags: human-nature psychology sociology
In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he contracts from them his habits and his wants; his ideas are no longer his own; he enjoys, from the enviable prerogative of his species, a capacity of developing his understanding bu the power of initiation, and the influence of society.
Jean Marc Gaspard ItardTags: sociology
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Fulton J. SheenTags: society philosophy christianity religion spirituality catholicism catholic sociology
We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology.
Jean BaudrillardTags: america sociology baudrillard
…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sexual conquest, committing suicide.
The marathon is a form of demonstrative suicide, suicide as advertising: it is running to show you are capable of getting every last drop of energy out of yourself, to prove it… to prove what? That you are capable of finishing. Graffiti carry the same message. They simply say: I’m so-and-so and I exist! They are free publicity for existence.
Do we continually have to prove to ourselves that we exist? A strange sign of weakness, harbinger of a new fanaticism for a faceless performance, endlessly self-evident.
Tags: america sociology jean-baudrillard
The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.
Kai Theodor EriksonTags: sociology criminology deviance
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.
David RichoTags: friendship love inspiration philosophy relationships sociology
The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.
Sulak SivaraksaTags: buddhism capitalism economics sociology
What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events. We know time to be a hurricane. Our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick's skull.
Alain de BottonTags: time death work technology revolution achievements permanence sociology anachronisms
إن الدين لا يردع الإنسان عن عمل يشتهي أن يقوم به الا بمقدار ضئيل. فتعاليم الدين يفسرها الانسان ويتأولها حسب ما تشتهي نفسه. وقد رأينا القران والحديث مرجعا لكثير من الأعمال المتناقضة التي قام بها المتنازعون في عصر صدر الاسلام..
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