Sociology

"The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy."

"In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian."

"From a distance you look like my friend Even though we are at war From a distance I just cannot comprehend What all this war is for."

"He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging all other sects from a feeling of attachment to his own, on the supposition that he thus glorifies his own sect, in reality by such conduct inflicts severe injury on his own sect."

"The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of non-duality."

"From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves It's the heart of every man (Every man). It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves This is the song of every man."

"She continued, "Theirs was a religion of freedom and joy and not pervaded by fanatical and morbid asceticism as some people would have us believe." Here again I feel she is absolutely right. The critics of Catharism fail to distinguish between the Parfait and the ordinary croyant. The latter were not required to fast and mortify the flesh any more than the average Hindu or Roman Catholic, even though both Hindu and Catholic priests may regularly practise asceticism as well as meditation and other such disciplines."

"Political tension by itself cannot lead to civil war. Sectarianism is the one possible cause. But the position of the leadership has pulled the rug out from under this proposition."

"Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason."

"The birth of the Indian nation state, with its programme of social and economic development, and the opening of the area to tourism means that the forces of consumerism and material advancement have now reached even the remotest villages of the region [Kashmir]."

"When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing."

"The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters."

"Cramped like sardines on the Queens, and sedated, The sittings all first, the roommates mismated, Veering through rapids in a vapid rapido To view the new moon from a ruin on the Lido, Or a sundown in London from a rundown Mercedes Then high-borne to Glyndebourne for Orféo in Hades, Embarrassed in Paris in Harris tweed, trying to Get to the next museum piece that they're flying to, Finding, in Frankfurt, that one indigestible Comestible makes them too ill for the festival, Humdrum conundrums, what's to become of them? Most will come home, but there will be some of them Subsiding like Lawrence in Florence, or crazily Ending up tending up shop in Fiesole."

"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy."

"People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others. Why did it occur at this time and not another? Why? Whoever examines these areas discovers that they are tourism areas. Tourism areas are areas where the forbidden acts are widespread, as well as alcohol consumption, drug use, and acts of abomination. Whoever knows about tourism in our age knows this. These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism"."

"The sheep like nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country."

"A "tour" is like a cocktail party. One "meets" everybody and knows no one. I doubt that what is ordinarily called "travel" really does broaden the mind any more than a cocktail party cultivates the soul. Perhaps the old-fashioned tourist who used to check off items in his Baedeker lest he forget that he had seen them was not legitimately so much a figure of fun as he was commonly made. At best, more sophisticated travelers usually know only the fact that they have seen something, not anything worth keeping which they got from the sight itself. Chartres is where the lunch was good; Lake Leman where we couldn't get a porter. To have lived in three places, perhaps to have lived in only one, is better than to have seen a hundred. I am a part, said Ulysses, of all that I have known—not of all that I have visited or "viewed.""

"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."

"Sustainable tourism development cannot be understood in isolation from the socio-political context in which it was born or from the spatial context in which it is adopted as a managerial philosophy."

"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."

"At the moment, money from Gombe tourism goes into one pot for Tanzania National Parks and it has to pay for the whole infrastructure of everything. But through our TACARE [community development] programme, we’ve benefited local people hugely."

"If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything."

"Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps."

"That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen – fly me! Or Shakespeare or T.S. Elliot, or Hazlitt. All tickets to ride. To ride the jumbo jets."

"First, the intertwined global discourses of ecology, heritage, and conservation circulate through tourist sites, focusing on specific attractions that have been assigned global importance. Indeed the significance of a site as the Taj has been partially disembodied from its local encoding and has become a symbol of globality. It is not merely a symbol of India now, but belongs to the world– as many commentators have noted – and accordingly is the responsibility of the world."

"Heritage tourism and destination weddings, including honeymoon trips, have become a key segment of the tourist industry, be it royal weddings in Rajasthan or beach weddings in Kerala or Goa, And they have come to mark a new topography of taste and status in the light of economic liberalization."

"Over the next fifty years, thousands of people will travel to Earth's orbit—and then to the Moon and beyond. Space travel and space tourism—will one day become almost as commonplace as flying to exotic destinations on our own planet."

"The explorer seeks the undiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history, the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity. The genuine traveler is, or used to be, in the middle between the two extremes. If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates, retaining all he can of the excitement of the unpredictable attaching to exploration and fusing with the pleasure of knowing where one is belonging to tourism. ~"

"What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf."

"I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection."

"Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded."

"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, byproduct of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."

"A single tourist must hurry, that he may not recoil upon himself: he must, from economy of time, money and temper, be ever upon the move and tire himself, that he may not tire of himself."

"One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'"

"Island tourism contributes a significant proportion of Australia’s share of the World tourism market, mainly as a result of the attraction of the islands in and adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Sustainable tourism development in an island has thus become a significant goal for Australian tourism operators, regulators and tourists, as it is concerned with visitors experiencing natural environments without threatening their viability."

"I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place."

"In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors."

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing'."

"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin."

"Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras."

"I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty."

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

"To be a tourist is to escape accountability … Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event."

"Business tourism is rising in Africa. Demand from international civil servants and businessman is growing strongly."

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

"Filmmakers of Cinema Verite [truthful cinema] resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts."

"Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in did not bother them at all. They untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere."

"Since 1994, when the Clinton health care plan imploded in a fiasco that cost Democrats control of the Congress, Democrats have been too scared to think big again. Republicans, emboldened by this Democratic timidity, have chosen to push harder for their traditional priorities of cutting taxes and regulations. What's been lost in the dysfunctional debate of the last decade is a commitment to two long-standing American ideals: equal opportunity and a minimally decent life for citizens of a wealthy nation."

"If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me."

"I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. … The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties."