“It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.” GivingSocialIdentityPositionPermanent Author:J. B. Jackson
“Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.” PeopleYoungPoliticalOrderSocialMoralMovementRevolutionMassTrainingFoundationSoldierFinishedRadicalPermanentIdleUnemploymentSocial OrderPolitical Movements Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.” DoeBodySocialGroupsEqualMembersPermanentOrganizedFlatsSocial Groups Book:Social Mobility Source: Social Mobility
“As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.” WorldDoeSpiritForceSocialAtheismWorshipModelsAppealsPermanentTensionDependentDistractionRhetoricSensibilityOrganizeRespectablePietyVariablesRevitalization Author:C. Wright Mills
“Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.” StatesFormLiteratureLanguageSocialOrganizationInfiniteAncientReactionsInevitablePermanentIronyIndifferenceTemporaryFiniteRevulsionSocial Organization Author:Joseph Brodsky
“It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.” MenHardSocialAcceptanceMen And WomenEnglandPermanentLowest Author:Virginia Gildersleeve
“To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.” WritingWellsFormLanguageSocialCurrentsPermanentRebellionNormGrammarErosionSubversion Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset