Social Quotes
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From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.
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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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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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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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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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If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.
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In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.
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He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird
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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.
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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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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social change begins with thought. And so if you can find humor in something and take a moment to rethink it, you can take a step back and look at your values from a different angle. I think that's a really important way of carrying on with life. I think the best art for me is funny and the best comedy for me is art. Some of my favorite artists are comedians. Comedy is art, and art can be comedy, and the intersection is vital - at least for my own work.
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Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
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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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All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.
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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 am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.
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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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While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.
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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
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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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Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
