Social Economic Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises the lives of millions of…
— Simon Mainwaring
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During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.…
— Max Born
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Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central…
— Thomas Naylor
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Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,…
— E. O. Wilson
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We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts…
— Mary Robinson
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of…
— Navi Pillay
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Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of color and their…
— Robert D Bullard
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I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that…
— Patricia Heaton
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching…
— Michel Foucault
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Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to…
— Clarence Thomas
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The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it…
— Ralph Linton
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More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad,…
— Mortimer Adler
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We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a…
— Patricia Aburdene
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Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover…
— Peter L. Berger
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Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.
— Colin Tudge
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This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly…
— Stephen Breyer
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As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist
— Dalai Lama
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If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic,…
— Richard Pipes
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...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance…
— J. Paul Getty
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