Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned… — Phil Zuckerman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a… — David Sobel Copy Share Image
The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
In Greece there is a very particular situation because on one hand the colonels took away everyone's political rights, but at the… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community.… — Sheila Kitzinger Copy Share Image