{"quotes":[{"text":"Very few politicians, who have chosen a political career, can fulfill the aspirations and survive the strains of an elevated office that in a monarchy was filled so randomly. Each tsar had to be simultaneously dictator and supreme general, high priest and Little Father. They required all the qualities listed by the sociologist Max Weber: the personal gift of grace, the virtue of legality, and 'the authority of the eternal yesterday.","author":"Simon Sebag Montefiore","tags":["legitimacy","magnetism","max-weber","politics","sociology","tradition"],"id":2033,"author_id":"Simon+Sebag+Montefiore"},{"text":"We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["america","baudrillard","sociology"],"id":2099,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["idea","ideas","man","philosophy","sociology"],"id":3688,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"Social change doesn’t happen overnight: It takes decades for momentum to build and for the once-radical edge to become mainstream.","author":"Dr. Jean M. Twenge","tags":["politics","sociology"],"id":3739,"author_id":"Dr.+Jean+M.+Twenge"},{"text":"Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["health","illness","illness","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","possession","possession","sociology","sociology"],"id":4119,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["health","illness","illness","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","possession","possession","sociology","sociology"],"id":4119,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"Individuals are concerned notwith the moral issue of realizing these standards, but withthe amoral issue of engineering a convincing impression thatthese standards are being realized. Our activity, then, islargely concerned with moral matters, but as performers wedo not have a moral concern in these moral matters. Asperformers we are merchants of morality. Our day is givenover to intimate contact with the goods we display and ourminds are filled with intimate understandings of them; but itmay well be that the more attention we give to these goods,th e more d is ta n t we feel from them and from those who arebelieving enough to buy them. To use a different imagery,the very obligation and profitablility of appearing always ina steady moral light, of being a socialized character, forcesus to be the sort of person who is practiced in the ways ofthe stage.","author":"Erving Goffman","tags":["dramaturgy","morals","philosophy","sociology"],"id":6831,"author_id":"Erving+Goffman"},{"text":"We should always respect our teachers, because transforming children into knowledge-oriented young people is a precious and extremely difficult job.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["children","education","inspirational","job","life","philosophy","sociology","teachers"],"id":7316,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["psychology","sociology","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":8835,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["attitude","attitude-toward-life","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful-people","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-religious","motivation","motivational","motivational-inspirational","motivational","motivational","motivational-speaker","social-media","social-media-addiction","social-media-advice","social-media-audiences","social-media-behaviour","social-media-for-","social-media-marketing","social-media-mind","social-media-speaker","sociology","thinking-for-change","thinking-for-yourself","thinking-positive","thinking-with-a-great-mind","twitter","twitter-addiction","twitter-advice","twitter-audiences","twitter-nation","twitter"],"id":9242,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":408,"pages":41,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}