Social Quotes · Page 104

That's the thing with social media: it's a gift and a curse. It's cool on one level, but it's also bad.

— DJ Premier

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected…

— Christopher Lasch

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

— Tony Judt

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

— Daniel Kahneman

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

— Robert A. Heinlein

People in my industry [PR] would like people to believe we have ways to control social media. But that's one of the…

— Eric Dezenhall

The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more…

— David Amerland

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to…

— Debbie Stabenow

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a…

— John F. Kerry

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the…

— John Gierach

I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many,…

— Pope Francis

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise…

— Erving Goffman

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in…

— Eric Kierans

Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the…

— Paul A. Baran

I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to…

— Kathryn Minshew

Social networking done f****d the world up, nobody is who they say they are anymore, everybody got all these out of town…

— H Gary

Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or…

— Gerhard Richter

I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism…

— Henry Giroux

“Already the people murmur that I am your enemy because they say that in verse I give the world your me. They…

— Julia de Burgos Jack Agüero Translator

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,…

— Abraham Lincoln

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no…

— Bruce D. Perry

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones…

— Michel Foucault

Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too…

— Robert Reich

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

— Carol Bartz

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

— Stella Blum

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial…

— Satish Kumar

In this age of social media, it is easy to punch out a phrase 'thoughts are with the family' when something bad…

— Peter Crouch

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I…

— Jon Stewart

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

— Margaret Mead

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

— Sonia Sotomayor

The upside of social media is you can craft how you want people to see you in some way.

— Ian Harding

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

— Francis Fukuyama

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused…

— Thomas Love Peacock

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

— Penelope Lively

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

— Robert Kuttner

Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.

— Ludwig von Mises