Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionaliz ed. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

Crime is a product of social excess.

[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

Dependency encourages social problems.

Design is a response to social change.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.

[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

Even with social media and where we are...everything is about the look.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.