Social Quotes
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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
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Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.
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I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
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When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
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Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.
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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.
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The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
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I will not let you or me make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.
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No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
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Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.
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There's people, like me and Jaden [Smith], who want to utilize social media to elevate the consciousness of those people who feel like all they want from social media is to be famous.Like, you can actually be a voice. You can actually say something that's inspiring and not just make people feel like you need to buy things and be a certain way.
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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
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In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.
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Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.
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We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.
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I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.
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Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
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It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
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Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.
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But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.
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What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
