Social Quotes
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Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies. One of them is local currencies. One is regional currencies. Another is functional currencies. Another is social-purpose currencies.
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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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Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.
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Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
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Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.
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There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.
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I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.
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Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.
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The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
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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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Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
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The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.
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At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.
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One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.
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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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Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.
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Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.
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I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
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I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.
