Social Quotes

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.

My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.