Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

As it develops, then, the concept of social space becomes broader. It infiltrates, even invades, the concept of production, becoming part - perhaps the essential part - of its content.

A smile is your greatest social asset.

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

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

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

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.

At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.

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.

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.

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

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

Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.

Bhakti is a Social Force

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

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

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.