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Sociology7 quotes
The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them. — William Graham Sumner · 1906A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups. — William Graham Sumner · 1906It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed. — William Graham Sumner · 1881The mores come down to us from the past. Each individual is born into them as he is born into the atmosphere, and he does not reflect on them, or criticise them any more than a baby analyzes the atmosphere before he begins to breathe it. — William Graham Sumner · 1906If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. — William Graham Sumner · 1906Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror. — William Graham Sumner · 1906All 7 quotes →Economic literature1 quote
The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898Historical literature1 quote
Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror. — William Graham Sumner · 1906