“Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.” DoeMovingCertainSocialCausesLevelsClassJourneyDegreesDistanceScalesEnormousColourUnexpectedTransportFlavour Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!” WorldHeartDoneFeelingsAgePastBeautifulEvilSocialExistenceProgressImpossiblePolicyWasteDestructionDistanceSurpriseSelfishTheologyCrueltyHypocrisyIntoleranceMonumentPiousDisturbanceConjunctionsWaste Of Life Author:Lydia M. Child
“Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.” SocialBrainDatingDistanceInsightIntimacyChemistryEroticRatiosTeasers Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe
“The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.” SocialSpaceDisciplineOrganizationDistanceSeriesRemarkableArtificialGhettoSpace Between Book:Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms Source: Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms