Social Quotes · Page 121

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

— Elizabeth Warren

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

— Diane Watson

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

— John Maynard Keynes

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

— Denise Levertov

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

— Camille Paglia

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037.

— Joe Heck

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

— D. A. Carson

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem…

— Maya Angelou

The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease,…

— Laura Mullen

When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…

— Emile Durkheim

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged…

— Tina Brown

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the…

— Tracy Chapman

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the…

— Jose Saramago

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't…

— Howard Schultz

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du…

— Mark McKinnon

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection…

— Thomas Jefferson

History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling…

— John Stuart Mill

Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things…

— Nancy Gibbs

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.…

— Thomas Jefferson

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day;…

— Mohsin Hamid

If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and…

— Marshall McLuhan

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

— Herbert Read

Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

— Anonymous

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

— Peter Mandelson

I wasn't drinking to get drunk. It's social drinking, so what's the point? It's empty calories, you're poisoning yourself.

— Spencer Matthews

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

— Albert Bandura

Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging.

— Simon Mainwaring

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a…

— George Carlin

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then…

— Rod Serling

I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can…

— Eugene Puryear

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

— Yuri Milner

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

— Arancha Gonzalez

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people…

— Jeremy Piven

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if…

— Upton Sinclair

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

— Timothy Leary

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

— Judith Rodin

The Green Party has the most progressive platform and policies related to issues of social and racial justice.

— Annamie Paul