"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."
-Kenneth L. Pike
societyView Quote
"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.“
-Kenneth L. Pike
posted in change
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it."
-Kenneth L. Pike
societyView Quote
"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
-Kenneth L. Pike
scienceView Quote
"With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts."
-Kenneth L. Pike
scienceView Quote
"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."
-Kenneth L. Pike
scienceView Quote
"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."
-Kenneth L. Pike
knowledgeView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
changeView Quote
"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
changeView Quote
"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
changeView Quote
"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
changeView Quote
"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
changeView Quote
"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
changeView Quote