Social Quotes

Crime is a product of social excess.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

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.

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.