Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Ms. Merkel's attempt to present herself as a Social Democrat was a clever move. But it's not working anymore. The divisions between the CDU and CSU have simply become too great for that.

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

My point is that the social forces liberals like to point to are real - I absolutely agree - but, at the same time, a good grounding from a family can make a huge difference.

My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.

Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

No social stability without individual stability.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

One day you retire, and you get a social life.

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.