Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern.

The presence of a supporting partner depleted the majority of much of its power. Its pressure on the individual was reduced to one fourth.

Independence and conformity were the two main attitudes toward the majority pressure, and most subjects exhibited some of each.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

-- Viktor Frankl

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

-- Viktor Frankl

Blow up Mikuni Pass with dynamite and no more snow will fall on Echigo; haul the rock into the Sea of Japan and Sado Island becomes part of the mainland.

-- Kakuei Tanaka

The whole is something else than the sum of its parts.

-- Wolfgang Köhler

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

-- Jawaharlal Nehru

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

-- Solomon Asch