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“.. if the thing denied is the possibility of reducing Sociology to the form of an exact science; then the rejoinder is that the thing denied is a thing which no one has affirmed. . . But so far as there can be generalization, and so far as there can be interpretation based on it, so far there can be science.”
― The Study of Sociology
― The Study of Sociology
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― The Temper of Our Time
― The Temper of Our Time
“Whether ye rise for the sake of a creed,
Or riot in hope of spoil,
Equally will I punish the deed,
Equally check the broil;
No wise permitting injustice at all
From whatever doctrine it springs—
But—whether ye follow Priapus or Paul,
I care for none of these things.”
Gallio’s Song”
― Rudyard Kipling's Verse Definitive Edition
Or riot in hope of spoil,
Equally will I punish the deed,
Equally check the broil;
No wise permitting injustice at all
From whatever doctrine it springs—
But—whether ye follow Priapus or Paul,
I care for none of these things.”
Gallio’s Song”
― Rudyard Kipling's Verse Definitive Edition
“Don't believe for a minute that this all belongs to some distant past. These are not antediluvian monsters, creatures who pitifully faded away in the 1950s along with the poverty depicted by Rossellini, or were carted off with the ruins of Berlin. These names still exist. Their fortunes are enormous.”
― L'Ordre du jour
― L'Ordre du jour
“Generation after generation the honest and independent, not marrying till they had the means, and striving to bring up their families without assistance, have been saddled with extra burdens, and hindered from leaving a desirable posterity; while the dissolute and the idle, especially when given to that lying and servility by which those in authority are deluded, have been helped to produce and to rear progeny, characterized, like themselves, by the absence of mental traits needed for good citizenship.”
― The Study of Sociology
― The Study of Sociology
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