Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It's not social issues I care about.

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

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 one to tear the social fabric.

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

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

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.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

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

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

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

I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

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

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 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 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 butterfly at all.

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

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 would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

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.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

Jesse Ventura is basically proof that the people of Minnesota are not social drinkers... they are obviously alcoholics.

Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.