Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

'Tis social converse, animates the soul.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I’m a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

Tradition is a prop for social security.

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

True self-love and social are the same.

Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel obliged to say 'Just great!'. In both cases, the reply is just a social nicety, but the framework has changed, it's as if it's become a social duty to express happiness.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

Twitter is your window to relevance , but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web

Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.

Twitter is part of our social fabric

Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

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 also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

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.