Certain Quote by Gustav Landauer

Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a…

— Thomas Sowell

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create…

— Anonymous

“Social support helps to ameliorate physiological stress. The close links between health and the social environment have been amply demonstrated. In the Alameda County…

— Gabor Maté

“[T]he social relationship of young women to young men … now seemed to Kitty like ignominious exposure of merchandise to be taken by the…

— Leo Tolstoy

We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

— Margaret Visser

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous…

— Thomas Sowell

“The reigning belief today is that closeness between persons is a moral good. The reigning aspiration today is to develop individual personality through experiences…

— Richard Sennett

A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus…

— Stanley Greenspan

We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day…

— Peter Corning

Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or…

— Sigmund Freud

“The sperm whales' network of female-based family unit resembled, to a remarkable extent, the community the whalemen had left back home on Nantucket. In…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic…

— Aaron Siskind

The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace a survival…

— Henry Giroux

“One third of managers are victims of "Information Fatigue Syndrome." 49 percent said they are unable to handle the vast amounts of information received.…

— Jeff Davidson

“...class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.”

— Neal Stephenson