Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I’m a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

Tradition is a prop for social security.

Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

True self-love and social are the same.

Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel obliged to say 'Just great!'. In both cases, the reply is just a social nicety, but the framework has changed, it's as if it's become a social duty to express happiness.

Twitter is part of our social fabric

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

Twitter is your window to relevance , but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?

We embed social media inside our processes. Let's look at our processes and see how we can enhance them with social.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

We have to define our top priority pending expenditures; these are, first and foremost, our social expenditures, and we have to cut on expenditures that we cannot currently afford. This is the very least we should do in 2015

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.