Social Quotes

• My work is not directly about the social or political.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Work
  • Political
  • Social

• 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.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Long
  • Certain
  • Break

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Four

• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Media

• When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Guy
  • Looks
  • Rap

• This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Obvious
  • Manners

• I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Stop
  • Changing
  • Friendly

• What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Social
  • Gang
  • Outcast

• If I had to pick one social action I could encourage all my friends, family and fans to do, it would be to teach a child. One, to educate them about good music, but two, because that kind of relationship helps build a bond. When you share music with somebody, that then becomes your link to them. Music is what connects a lot of us, over borders.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Good
  • Music
  • Family

• I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Moments
  • Memories
  • Replaced

• Wonder, Carlyle declared, is the beginning of philosophy. It is not wonder, but rather the social enthusiasm which revolts from the sordidness of mean streets and the joylessness of withered lives, that is the beginning of economic science. Here, if in no other field, Comte's great phrase holds good: "It is for the heart to suggest our problems; it is for the intellect to solve them.... The only position for which the intellect is primarily adapted is to be the servant of the social sympathies.

  

  Arthur Cecil Pigou
  • Intellect
  • Adapted
  • Sympathies

• I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Time
  • Great
  • Today

• And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.

  

  Alexandru C. Cuza
  • Social
  • Theory
  • Explaining

• I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

  

  James T. Farrell
  • People
  • Romanticism
  • Fitzgerald

• Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.

  

  Sam Altman
  • America
  • Social
  • Feet

• 'X Factor' did a lot for me, but things truly started to take off for me when I went to social media.

  

  William Singe
  • Things
  • Media
  • Did

• The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Clear
  • Consequence
  • Psychedelic

• I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Religious
  • Persons
  • Rhetoric

• Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Social

• The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • World
  • Violence
  • Place

• In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Terrible

• War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces

  

  John Reed
  • Truth
  • Ugly
  • Means

• ...education is the key to health and to social progress. The fact is that the average expectation of life of an Indian has doubled since Independence. In fact, it is 61 years now as against 28 or 30 years at the time of Independence.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Education
  • Health
  • Progress

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