Our Social Quotes
120 quotes by 103 authors
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination…
— B R Ambedkar
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In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And…
— Albert Claude
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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a…
— Rennie Ellis
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I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to…
— Janice Hahn
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The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal…
— Joel Barlow
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with…
— Carl Sagan
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
— Angela Davis
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so…
— R. D. Laing
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We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.
— Harold Leavitt
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Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.
— Pepper Schwartz
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The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the…
— Linda McQuaig
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Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher…
— Herbert Hoover
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I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction
— Benazir Bhutto
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Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on…
— Kay Bailey Hutchison
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It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free…
— Peter Kropotkin
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The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental…
— Thomas Klestil
Who Wrote These Our Social Quotes
103 authors contributed a total of 120 Our Social Quotes, led by these top contributors: