Quote #28
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.
More from Russell Baker
- The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government w…
- While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philos…
- Early in life, most of us probably observe an unhappy relationship between labor and wealth - to wit, the heavier the labor, the less the w…
- I am unclear what a 'role model' is, but those who used the term seemed to be saying that teachers are people children tend to emulate. In …
- This may be why New Yorkers instinctively avoid making eye contact with each other in crowded places, why they 'look right through you,' as…
- There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowad…
- I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
- By any precise definition, Washington is a city of advanced depravity. There one meets and dines with the truly great killers of the age, b…