Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

We embed social media inside our processes. Let's look at our processes and see how we can enhance them with social.

We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.

We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

We have to define our top priority pending expenditures; these are, first and foremost, our social expenditures, and we have to cut on expenditures that we cannot currently afford. This is the very least we should do in 2015

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

We're bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion.

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

We see Facebook as an advertising platform. We see Ello as a social network.

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

We should be a rich country again, and if we do that, we can leave Social Security.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.

What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civil, social and economic, and broadly cultural, to adopt the framework of the Universal Declaration that is formally endorsed but constantly undermined.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.

When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George W.] Bush stopped pushing for it, Congressman Pence kept pushing for it.

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom.

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.