Social Quotes

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.