Social Quotes · Page 161

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go.

— Fred Eychaner

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

— Jaron Lanier

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

— Anonymous

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

— Mark Steyn

Working together always works together better... it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures.

— Chris Pine

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

— Albert Einstein

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences…

— Soleil Moon Frye

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

— James Howard Kunstler

I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice…

— Rachel Caine

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really…

— Franchesca Ramsey

This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would…

— Virginia Foxx

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about…

— Andrew Eldritch

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding.…

— Rebecca Solnit

Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform,…

— Tony Blair

Imgur offers a rare place for people to express themselves in a real way without the fear of social judgment. Everyone has…

— Alan Schaaf

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good…

— Edward Abbey

England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and…

— Dan Smoot

You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it.…

— Wilhelm Reich

Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and…

— Arundhati Roy

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose…

— Emile Durkheim

Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even…

— Sam Harris

Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing…

— Howard Zinn

Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under…

— Anonymous

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

— H. G. Wells

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and…

— Simon Mainwaring

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

— Colin Tudge

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

— Julian Castro

I wanted to be a counselor or social worker. That's one of the reasons I was a psychology major.

— Mazie Hirono

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which…

— George William Russell

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever…

— Arca

The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.

— Hakim Bey

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

— Bernard Crick

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read.…

— David Eddings

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others…

— Earl Warren

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

— Kate Millett

I'm a social butterfly. But as I've gotten older, I've realized that I do have that side of me where I become…

— Ariana DeBose

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

— Dave Barry

“To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

— Richard K. Morgan