Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.

In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.

In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime

In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

I rank money higher than social life or meaning because once you have money, those other things are easier to get. For example, you won't have much of a social life if you can't afford to do anything. And you can't make money if your health is a mess.

I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.

It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

I think that social media can be used for good and for bad.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

I think women are excellent social critics.

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

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 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.