Best Socially Quotations
392 Socially quotes by 346 unique authors
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Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than…
— Tom Robbins
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one…
— Erving Goffman
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
— Judith Butler
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I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active…
— Tony Abbott
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If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of…
— Stefan Molyneux
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It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves…
— Mary Parker Follett
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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
— Margaret Thatcher
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Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of…
— Andrea Mitchell
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Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure,…
— Auberon Waugh
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In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves.…
— Mark Doty
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially,
— Gloria Allred
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For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.
— Laurie Colwin
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It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
— Jacque Fresco
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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
— Jacque Fresco
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Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum…
— Paul Goldberger
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Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment…
— Tony Attwood
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This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming…
— Janet Mock
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I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s so many socially acceptable ways…
— Merrill Markoe
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I'm a bad dater. I'm the most socially awkward person, like carrying on conversations and stuff.
— Lauren Conrad
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Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available,…
— Stanley Krippner
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Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.
— Nia Vardalos
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I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree…
— John C. Lilly
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