Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.

It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

I think that social media can be used for good and for bad.

I think women are excellent social critics.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.

Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

It's not social issues I care about.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.