sociology

The strictest judges are ignorant people.

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

There__ no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.

Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

In this view, man is an energy-converting organism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage his world in some ways, who must make it uncomfortable for others, etc., by his own nature as an active being. He seeks self-expansion from a very uncertain power base. Even if man hurts others, it is because he is weak and afraid, not because he is confident and cruel. Rousseau summed up this point of view with the idea that only the strong person can be ethical, not the weak one.

Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn.