I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the myriad of other services resonate with the basic human urge to be social. The tools have changed,… — Alfred Hermida Copy Share Image
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social… — Robert Vaughan Copy Share Image
One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today,… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills.… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently.… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the… — Dorian Corey Copy Share Image
Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it… — Romy Madley Croft Copy Share Image
Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
People of my generation knew we needed to move beyond that, the racial division and segregation and unsustainable social relations, that were… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
We don't need to do anything new. We simply need to protect Social Security so that when people reach a certain age… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for… — Edwin Moses Copy Share Image
In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not… — Melissa Farley Copy Share Image
I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image