Pierre L. van den Berghe famous quotes

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.
-- Pierre L. van den Berghe

#Half #Lasts #Boat

I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.
-- Pierre L. van den Berghe

#Distance #Political #Suffering

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
-- Pierre L. van den Berghe

#Book #Achievement #Elegance

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

I like to look at the glass half full.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.

A boat can't have two captains.

Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.