Social Quotes · Page 69

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

— Steve Israel

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

— Joni Mitchell

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

— Paul Krugman

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a…

— Terence McKenna

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I miss being around friends. Associates. Whatever. I'm feeling like everyone thinks I'm being anti-social. Times are just really tough.

— Anonymous

Mobile devices have given us greater freedom and flexibility than ever before, while social platforms help us collaborate more effectively.

— Jean-Philippe Courtois

Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of,…

— David Ignatius

I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they…

— Alice Neel

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come…

— Haniel Long

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into…

— Henry Giroux

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars,…

— Ryan Adams

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something…

— Michael Fassbender

The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben…

— Beth Orton

You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation…

— Margaret Mead

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's…

— Jack Nicholson

Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on…

— Edward Bernays

The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing…

— Charles Krauthammer

As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he…

— Bob Frank

As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide…

— Mary Robinson

What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in…

— Albert Pike

I've played pretty much every single-player RPG there is, has been, ever will be. But as far as the MMOs go, especially…

— Felicia Day

If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of…

— William Graham Sumner

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

— Jonathan Kozol

The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I…

— Merle Haggard

Social media is awesome because I can somewhat paint myself the way I want people to see me.

— Kevin Abstract

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

— John Maynard Keynes

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

— Constance Rourke

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

— Angela Davis

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

— Judith Martin

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues…

— Jessye Norman

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

— Grace Kelly

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every…

— Gary Wolf

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families…

— Barbara Mikulski

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

— Brian Molko

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them…

— John Elder Robison

I really consider my goal is that, wherever I am in life, I want to be a social advocate.

— Hugh Evans

We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.

— Tom Rath

Best thing about social networking is how it brings us all together so we can have lunch with our phone.

— Green Monk