Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

At the time it really was the social women, the society ladies. There were the cool girls, like Aerin Lauder - everyone loved to see what Aerin was wearing. Carolyn Bessette was very much in that time period. Calvin [Kleine] was very influential in the '90s.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

Being anti-social can also mean that you're aware of how annoying it is to be social.

Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

Bhakti is a Social Force

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture. Branding has moved so far beyond its commercial origins that its impact is virtually immeasurable in social and cultural terms.

But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished - and having shown that effectively, proceed to expropriate.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

By providing memorable social media customer service, companies not only create deeper connections with consumers, but they glean valuable insights on how to improve their products or services.

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.

Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.

Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.

Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.

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.

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.

Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison

Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.