Social Quotes
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My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.
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People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.
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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
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Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional, you can work more quickly and effortlessly. To do this, we must be proactive. This is a Quadrant II (important, not urgent) activity that must be acted on. It's at the center of our Circle of Influence, so we must do it for ourselves.
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The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.
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The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
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For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.
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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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Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
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In the realm of culture in America, white European culture has held the floor for centuries; just as with any one-sided conversation, a balance can only be achieved if the speaker who has dominated speaks less and listens more.
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Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
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You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
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The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
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My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.
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Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.
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I never sought to privatize Social Security.
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As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
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Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.
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Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.
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I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversation is. There's also this neurological fixation, the incessant wondering what the Internet's doing to our brain: "Does it make us stupid, does it make us distracted?" And then the other guys say, "No, it's making us smarter than ever, and better than ever, and more connected." And it's like, where is the economic and social context? Why is that rarely considered?
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Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
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Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.
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The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
