Social Quotes · Page 108

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

— Atlee

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

— Karl Marx

Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social…

— Noelle Scaggs

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

— John Maynard Keynes

The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.

— Guy Standing

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more…

— Gore Vidal

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social…

— Pamela Yates

When I first started blogging, it was about getting out new music and capturing artists working in the studio. This was before…

— Karen Civil

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis…

— Emily Greene Balch

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if…

— Margaret Atwood

If we could solve the problem of who we are and where we are going, that it would have a huge impact…

— Max Lucado

The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the…

— Alfonso Cuaron

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing…

— Niall FitzGerald

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might…

— Ben Bernanke

What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five…

— Bill Ayers

I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become…

— Biz Stone

I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the…

— David Loy

Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme…

— Charles Franklin Thwing

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who…

— Sandra Scarr

Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society…

— Thomas Guthrie

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction,…

— Murray Bookchin

We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right—but is it? Our populace can't…

— David Gerrold

No citizen or social group can be completely isolated from politics, because policy decisions and actions affect their lives.

— Fethullah Gulen

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

I would say that New Labour come closer to institutionalising neoliberalism as a social and political form than Thatcher did.

— Stuart Hall

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

— Dylan Moran

'Hanna' doesn't maintain social norms. She doesn't have those boundaries. She speaks her mind and is very physical and funny.

— Esme Creed-Miles

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

— Gary Snyder

You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

— Aeriel Miranda

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

— Ambrose Bierce

It's like miners' coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I'm a social democrat to my fingertips.

— Betty Boothroyd

Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday.

— Mary Pilon

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger…

— Frank Keating

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

— Helen Fisher

Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too…

— Robert Reich

I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess,…

— George W. Bush

I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

— Barbara Mikulski

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

— Criss Jami