"Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Discipline Quotes #People Quotes #Society Quotes

“People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!”
“Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...”
“If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.”
“I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.”

Source : "Eva Green: 'Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.
“Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Let us be a temple-attending people. Attend the temple as frequently as personal circumstances allow. Keep a picture of a temple in your home that your children may see it. Teach them about the purposes of the House of the Lord. Have them plan from their earliest years to go there and to remain worthy of that blessing.”
“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”
“We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times... It's a really freeing process when you're not hitting the jokes too hard.”

You may also like:

Bruce Chatwin
Novelist
Colin Thubron
Writer
David Shields
Author
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President
Jan Morris
Historian
Paul Theroux
Film writer
Robert Byron
Writer
Robert Lowell
Poet
Tom Sharpe
Novelist