Social Quotes
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
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If I could police every other social platform in the world, I would.
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It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.
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Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
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I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.
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The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.
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I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
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...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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Social conservatives say who drives the bus.
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I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.
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I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.
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Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
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The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, since central governments are seated in capitals.
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
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What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
