Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if… — Jared Bernstein Copy Share Image
If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet,… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's… — Mike Nesbitt 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
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
I always had overlapping social circles with different ideological groups and different activist groups. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and… — David Carr Copy Share Image
If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology… — Anita Borg Copy Share Image
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
