Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

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

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

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.

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

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

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

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

No social stability without individual stability.

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

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 social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

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 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.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

One day you retire, and you get a social life.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.