Social Quotes

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.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

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.

I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.