Richard Wall quotes

“I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.”
-- Richard Wall

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“Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.”
-- Richard Wall

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“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan

“As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.”

“The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.”

“With sociology one can do anything and call it work”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage

“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.17, The New Press

“The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.”

“Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.”

Source : 1894 An Introduction to the Study of Society (with George E Vincent, 1894).

“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.”

“The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”

“Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.”