Edward Alsworth Ross famous quotes

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... [They] are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.
-- Edward Alsworth Ross

#Sunday #Men #Ice

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.
-- Edward Alsworth Ross

#Religious #Self #Liberty

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.
-- Edward Alsworth Ross

#School #Boards #Roles

In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with.
-- Edward Alsworth Ross

#Intelligent #Giving #Democracy

There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.
-- Edward Alsworth Ross

#Careers #May #Hell

During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.
-- Edward Alsworth Ross

#Powerful #Military #War

Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.
-- Edward Alsworth Ross

#Feelings #Triumph #Sociology

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.

For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this