Best 1397 quotes in «social quotes» category

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Our social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer . . . We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

People with autism aren't interested in social chit-chat.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.

Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

Politics is social work with power.

Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.