Introduction to the Science of Sociology

obedience-and-authority

• by the mere fact that he forms part of an organized crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilization—he is no longer himself, but has become an automaton.

  ISSR-RC-828

• They mean a law addressed to them by a sovereign, an ordinance which if they break they are going to suffer for, either in person or in property.

  ISSR-RC-787

self-and-identity

• The outward events of revolutions are always a consequence of invisible transformations which have slowly gone forward in men's minds.

  ISSR-RC-840

• Even in the animal world there are certain eminent individuals which show superiority of capability and obtain a predominance over others.

  ISSR-RC-751

belonging

• 'As long as the language lives, the nation is not dead'—the revival of national consciousness invariably connected with the struggle to maintain a native-language press.

  ISSR-RC-864

• The gold fever attacked all classes—clerks and professional men without the faintest notion of roughing it flocked in impossible numbers to join the throng.

  ISSR-RC-831