Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
I think I would find being in Hollywood intense if I had more of a social life, but all I do is… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t sure how a teenager recently freed from a decade’s imprisonment in an inferno under a quarantined city had a more… — RoAnna Sylver Copy Share Image
Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“God works on your behalf to help you meet and love other people. However, you determine whom you accept and whom you… — Rob Eagar Copy Share Image
“of being okay, and having everything together, and almost, like, say, even though I’m stressed, I still have time to have a… — Kate Fagan Copy Share Image
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Islam, in contrast to Christianity and Buddhism, does not have monasticism; spiritual life, social life, they are all integrated and related together… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“I think, This will be the last horrible thing I have to go through, until I meet someone else and the whole… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“In Hobbes’ state of nature, when a male individual conquers (contracts with) a female individual he becomes her sexual master and she… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Why put together a stand-up comedy routine? Especially if you’re not planning a comedy career? Because in the very process of creating… — Judy Carter Copy Share Image
“This portion of the chapter is directed at those of you whose son or daughter or other relative is in denial about… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, you get lawyers to write safeguards into… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“All those summer drives, no matter where I was going, to a person, a project, an adventure, or home, alone in the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut,… — Ross Paterson Copy Share Image
“So many problems we will get to the bottom of later, but whose spatial aspect we must grasp right away. If the… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“In agricultural communities, male leadership in the hunt ceased to be of much importance. As the discipline of the hunting band decayed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If human society produces children like cats and dogs for the disturbance of social order, then the world becomes hellish, as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I hated [the commercial art studio] because advertising is telling lies, basically, making crap goods look terrific, and I felt I was… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Adolescent Warning Signs Lack of peer relationships outside the family Anxiety in social situations Difficulty with social skills such as keeping a… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“The main take-home lesson from a careful study of nomadic forager partnership societies, re-enforced by the recent Nordic experience, is that humans… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
“It is a wonderful quirk of our species that the incentives of social life don’t reward strictly ruthless behavior. Leaders who are… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“ In many instances, a preoccupation with appearances--unrealistic social expectations, impossible standards--can be the single largest barrier to a satisfying social life.… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image