Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

I have great faith in the millennials and in what they understand about social media, and how they're going to be able to counter fascist forces as they come.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.

I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.