Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses… — Lucien Engelen Copy Share Image
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us.… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
In general, we're a social network. I prefer that because I think it is focused on the people part of it -… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Some findings reveal extroverts as more adept at reading nonverbal cues, and attribute this to the extrovert's greater interest and experience with… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
I've had friends whose boyfriends I meet, then they break up and I end up staying buddies with the boyfriend. In this… — Zachary Knighton Copy Share Image
Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back… — John Major Copy Share Image
Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I love changing hair color. I love doing hair shape. I love the social aspect of salons. I love clients, and because… — Jonathan Van Ness Copy Share Image
I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Every single night, there seemed to be the same seven or eight guys - Harry Nilsson, myself, Mickey Dolenz, Bernie Taupin, Keith… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker or a professor.… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill unanimously. Every single member of both parties voted for it. What was it? To… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image