Ian Hacking Quotes

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.

I worry about everything in this country in particular.

During the Blair-Brown decade social concerns - what kind of society we have become - have gradually replaced economic worries. People fear that we have become an increasingly fragmented, boorish, more violent society.

I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

I worry about the world.

I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

What is the world coming to?

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

If you read his … testimonies before Congress you will note that there is always something to be terribly, horribly and deeply worried about

There was a touch of anxiety in the whole human race about its future.

There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them.