Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.

It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.

Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

It's not social issues I care about.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work.

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.

I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.

I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.

I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.