Social Quotes

Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.