Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 father belonged to a Jewish social club.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

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

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

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

No social stability without individual stability.

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.

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 do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

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.

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.