Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them -… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I can be very social, but often, it weighs down on me later that the social thing was a put-on. I feel… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness...… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Each little update - each individual bit of social information - is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together,… — Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Copy Share Image
For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us?… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with… — Bonnie Wright Copy Share Image
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for… — David Vitter Copy Share Image
Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Whether you are launching a start-up or leading an established company, you should start establishing your social media presence if you haven’t… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for… — Gbenga Akinnagbe Copy Share Image
You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your… — Marc Andreesen Copy Share Image
Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone… — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I love going on dates. They're like social experiments and it's an excuse to get dressed up. Even if you don't get… — Georgia Toffolo Copy Share Image
The left are responsible for all the turmoil and the "social issues" of politics, because they're the ones constantly trying to corrupt… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image