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
Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day;… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I like the fact that it [social media] is unfiltered. In other words it's not Geraldo of Fox News or Geraldo of… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance… — Richard Weikart Copy Share Image
Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The stories leaders and others tell, few of which are true, are a lousy foundation on which to base any sort of… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“If talking about ourselves non-stop isn’t a good idea for the workplace, friendships, or dating, then why on Earth is this considered… — Kristen Lamb Copy Share Image
High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth… — Max Born Copy Share Image
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Secretary [Hillary ] Clinton is absolutely right, there are people, Koch brothers among others, who have a group called Concerned Veterans of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I've been very reluctant on the Twitter front. But I do Instagram now, so I'm slowly coming around. I'm quite a private… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image