“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them” — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're… — Valerie Owens Copy Share Image
As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck.… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
Belief in God is almost universal and the effect of this belief is so vast that one is appalled at the thought… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in developing human character in society. And I'm much more interested in the social conditions that foster commitment… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions…A ny religion that professes to be concerned with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Not only are poor, unemployed, less will-educated and non-white people more likely to become depressed, but they are also least likely to… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
Ben and I built Ben & Jerry’s on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment If you… — Jerry Greenfield Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
“The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
