Social Sciences Quotes

“The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.”
― M.D. Birmingham

“If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.”
― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture really isn’t offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.”
― Dalma Heyn

“The intolerance of uncertainty and ignorance flows not only from
pridefulness, but from a universal human desire to find meanings and patterns
everywhere. The mind abhors a vacuum.”
― Jon Elster, Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

“Mainly we were just curious about how the new archaeological evidence that had been building up for the last thirty years might change our notions of early human history, especially the parts bound up with debates on the origins of social inequality. Before long, though, we realized that what we were doing was potentially important, because hardly anyone else in our fields seemed to be doing this work of synthesis. Often, we found ourselves searching in vain for books that we assumed must exist but, it turns out, simply didn’t – for instance, compendia of early cities that lacked top-down governance, or accounts of how democratic decision-making was conducted in Africa or the Americas, or comparisons of what we’ve called ‘heroic societies’. The literature is riddled with absences.”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“The intolerance of uncertainty and ignorance flows not only from pridefulness, but from a universal human desire to find meanings and patterns everywhere. The mind abhors a vacuum.”
― Jon Elster, Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

“your book is full of piquant ideas on how sexual assault is practiced by many people but in African countries the issue is pressurized by females themselves as they tend to dress on night attires as a result males are piquant ed

to commit an offense”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Freedom of the High School Press

“Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Every milestone of civilization--the end of slavery, democracy, equal rights for men and women--these were all Utopian fantasies once, until they happened. That's why I think that history is actually the most subversive discipline of all the social sciences, because history shows us that things can be different, they don't have to be this way, we can change them.”
― Rutger Bregman

“Till we successfully build a meritocratic society, the integrity of a democracy remains predicated on the integrity of the civil servants. Civil servants are the first defenders of democracy, against crooked politicians as well as angry, mindless mobs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. social scientists active in psychological warfare were not ignorant of their role, or of the violence that usually accompanied psychological operations. They were, rather, "insulated," just as Biderman and Crawford say, from consideration of the implications of their work.”
― Christopher Simpson, Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960

“A whole society is a well society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Socialism is nothing but an everyday, ordinary concern for society. If people philosophize it with the term socialism, that's their problem.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Politics is civilized when people are civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“The belief that technology will solve every single problem of society, is what I call digital fundamentalism, which is as dangerous as religious fundamentalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“This is the problem with the population, everybody wants all the freedom in the world, but none of the responsibility that goes along with it. And such a society is no more advanced than a bunch of cave people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Against Nothing (The Sonnet)

I am not against consumerism,
I am not against corporations.
I am not against politics and policy,
I am not against politicians.
I am not against fame and fortune,
I am not against celebrity.
I am not against entrepreneurship,
I am not against technology.
I am not against bureaucrats,
I am not against red tape.
I am not against bibles and comics,
I am not against prayers and faith.
I ain't against anything that serves human welfare.
The moment they go astray, I'll be their nightmare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Theoreticians attempting to dissect human history by force fitting contrived definitions about “modernism” and “post-modernism” are toiling in vain, effectively emptying buckets into the river rapids of flowing time.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Alien is not one from a different planet, alien is one who has no responsibility towards the people of this planet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

“Even if one person falls behind, It is the fall of all humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“The sun will never set on the empire of human beings, so long as they are humans and not colonial creeplings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Feel the ground, be the ground, raise the ground.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“You don't actually lay the foundation for a better society, you are the foundation for a better society, for a humane society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“In the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man

“Since the beginning of neanderthal man, personal branding has existed. Many choose to believe that personal branding is a new concept and is something that globalization and the expansion of the internet and new technologies have created. Because it is not new, it means we have hundreds of years, as a matter of fact, thousands, to learn and study.”
― Isaac Mashman, Personal Branding: A Manifesto on Fame and Influence

“If I disturb your universe, I may be worthy of contempt. I may appear to be your favorite political enemy, a conservative if you are radical, a radical if you are conservative.”
― Donald Black

“In many ways, digital communication appears to be altering our comfort levels with direct and honest communication and conflict resolution. Doing so will inevitably negatively affect our relationships, since important discussions should be done in person or, at the very least, over the phone so that misunderstandings could be minimized. - Psychologist Suzana E. Flores”
― Donna B McKinney, How Do Smartphones Affect Social Interaction?

“He [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, 1795], coined the term Caucasian on the basis of a favorite skull of his that had come into his possession from the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. To him, the skull was the most beautiful of all that he owned. So he gave the group to which he belonged, the Europeans, the same name as the region that had produced it. That is how people now identified as white got the scientific-sounding yet random name Caucasian.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“History is the laboratory of social science theories.”
― Mohsen Sazegara