"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."

“You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.”

“No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.”

“First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.225, Macmillan

“Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

“It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.”

“The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.”

“If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.”

“For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.”