Social Quotes · Page 111

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

— Mike Huckabee

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because…

— Gregory Mcdonald

Learning can cause social fracture. Your people start expressing themselves.

— Richard Rodriguez

They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements.

— Scarlett Johansson

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

— Don Tapscott

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

— Thomas Merton

Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate.…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits…

— Milton Friedman

The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain…

— Michel Foucault

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as…

— John Desmond Bernal

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off…

— Dennis Moore

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with…

— George Osborne

As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As…

— Edward Snowden

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the…

— Noam Chomsky

While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we…

— Jose Angel Gurria

It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot…

— Giorgio Armani

[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security.…

— Michael Hudson

Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent…

— Milton Friedman

The world would have you believe that you are of worth only if you have money, a certain physical appearance, stylish clothes,…

— Elaine L. Jack

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures…

— Thomas Hardy

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I'd like to keep a bit of my life my own, so I'm not publicizing my whole life on social media and…

— Bella Ramsey

Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free.

— Ryan Holiday

I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.

— Sharron Angle

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

— Bernie Sanders

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

— Steven Holl

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to…

— Malik Bendjelloul

Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn't be thought of as a model.

— Barbie Ferreira

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with…

— Teresa Giudice

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I…

— Fidel Castro

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

— John Thune

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

— Ben Rattray

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

— Erik Qualman

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put…

— LZ Granderson

We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.

— Richard Neal

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life…

— Joseph Stalin