Social Quotes
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When you have a bad game the social network isn't exactly your best friend. People tend to go after you a little bit, but I don't let it bother me.
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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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The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility.
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
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Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.
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You get the odd person in social media that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.
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Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.
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Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.
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When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.
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Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
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It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.
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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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You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
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A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
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A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.
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I like to say that neurotypical social interaction is a second language. It’s not as if we can’t learn it. It’s just that it doesn’t necessarily come easily to us.
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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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The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.
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Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.
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Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
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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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Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.
