Karl Manheim Quotes

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Culture is your operating system.

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.