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
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
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I use to be like fuck social networks, but its fun interacting w/ all these people & not have 2 physically see… — DMarvalouz Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The major media companies are playing a defensive game, and I'm not sure I blame them. If you look at the digital… — Harry E. Sloan Copy Share Image
Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image