Social Quotes · Page 101

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

— David Cooperrider

I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy.

— Drake

I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

— Yuan Yuan Tan

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

— Arthur Helps

Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.

— Ryan Holmes

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

— Patricia Hill Collins

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

— William Kingdon Clifford

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

— Jay Wright Forrester

Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to…

— Blake Judd

Human beings take social stances, and if you’re respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you’re going to do…

— Mike Carey

The huge amount of love and support I've been receiving, whether it's in the fashion industry itself or on social media, truly…

— Maria Borges

When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He…

— Amy Hempel

Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The 'teavangelicals' of the 21st century have flipped the script, turning their ideas about Christianity, social responsibility, and care for the downtrodden…

— Anthea Butler

"Be Right Back," in which Hayley Atwell brings Domhnall Gleeson back from the dead using his social-media profile, sprang out of an…

— Charlie Brooker

I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ...…

— Lebbeus Woods

I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,…

— Henry George

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of…

— Hannah Arendt

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social…

— Abraham Lincoln

I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of…

— Maria Bamford

What's awesome about social media is you curate your own experience. That leads to the rise of niche celebrities, who are actually…

— Kevin Systrom

From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral…

— David Hume

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price…

— George Bernard Shaw

Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation…

— Thomas Naylor

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

— George Packer

“Harvath shrugged as his phone chimed. “That’s social media for you. There’s a reason the intelligence community loves it so much.”

— Brad Thor

Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social…

— Noelle Scaggs

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

— Michael Harrington

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

— Saul Williams

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

— Le Corbusier

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

— Mario Bunge

The economic and social upheaval the CDC caused by abusing their authority is nothing short of unprecedented.

— Anna Paulina Luna

My kids are really good with social media; that's really an important dynamic in our relationship with our audience, and it's a…

— Kris Jenner

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

— Alexander Pope

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

— Michael Moore

I have an incredibly supportive family... and I don't have much of a social life.

— Danielle Colby

I wish I were better at observational or political or social commentary, and I'm just not.

— Taylor Tomlinson

I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's…

— Mike Nesbitt

[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged…

— Horace Rowan Gaither