“Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action...Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention” — Gerard Hauser Copy Share Image
I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every theory of social action is ultimately a philosophy of history. It attempts, as best it may, to read in the experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
If I had to pick one social action I could encourage all my friends, family and fans to do, it would be… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the… — James P Comer Copy Share Image
The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
“When you feel authentic love toward others, you will be deeply moved to act. You will not rest until you have found… — Ogyen Trinley Dorje Copy Share Image
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“I'm all for Spencer. He's sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don't believe that social action is the main business… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image