I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social… — Andy Sawford Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities -… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis.… — Jean-Francois Cope Copy Share Image
Television is interesting, in that the pace is quicker and you can see your work more quickly than with movies. And then,… — Matthew Davis Copy Share Image
We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools.… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and… — Claude Gueant Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts… — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Ok so the hotel restaurant isnt exactly the Soho House, but if I dont have some social contact with people my age… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image