I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
International Women's Day means many things to many people. Officially, it is 'a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political… — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a social person and I enjoy corresponding with people and checking out their Facebook pages. And it really doesn't… — Chris Frantz Copy Share Image
If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are… — Patricia Wright Copy Share Image
If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social… — George Packer Copy Share Image
What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background,… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there's a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image