Social Quotes · Page 157

We've got a real problem with social media that we didn't know we were going to have. It's almost like the demons…

— George Saunders

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote…

— Karl Marx

This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.

— Jerry Falwell

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

— Frederick Lenz

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

— Michael Gove

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the…

— David Cunliffe

I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.

— Ice T

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as…

— Leslie White

When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not…

— Colin Powell

The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just…

— Wole Soyinka

I don't blame people for smoking when I see a social gradient in smoking. I say we need to understand why is…

— Michael Marmot

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences…

— Woodrow Wilson

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to…

— LeAnn Rimes

The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,…

— Ludwig von Mises

The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals…

— Freda Adler

It’s one thing if you are a luxury brand and have been around for 60 years and can weather the retail storm…

— Kelly Cutrone

The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th…

— Albert J. Nock

Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that…

— Joseph Roth

That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to…

— Martin Dugard

Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable…

— Hannah Arendt

I want to use film to tell stories that need to be told to spark discussions that will lead to change. I…

— Jamie Hector

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric…

— David Byrne

.. it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack…

— Susan Cain

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social…

— Sean Parker

Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.

— Carmen Busquets

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can…

— Helen Keller

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

— Bertrand Russell

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

— Marilyn vos Savant

People who take time out to dole out opinion on social media are negative people.

— Parineeti Chopra

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

— Fernand Braudel

“What’s a social worker, is it someone whose job it is to go on Twitter? And”

— Jack Cheng

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

— Sam Wanamaker

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

— Jessica Valenti

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

— Douglas Tompkins

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social…

— Paul Goodman

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

— Michel Foucault

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

— Narendra Modi

Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.

— Nicola Sturgeon