Social Quotes

• Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.

  

  John Hancock
  • Heaven
  • Individual
  • Duty

• 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

• I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Intellectual
  • Maxims

• 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

• 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

• Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

  

  Erik Qualman
  • Media
  • Communicate
  • Fundamentals

• It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.

  

  George C. Homans
  • Dark
  • Rich
  • Unity

• The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Born
  • Networking
  • Dylan

• I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Children
  • Media
  • Bullying

• Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Experience
  • Stranger
  • Playgrounds

• It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

  

  J. B. Jackson
  • Giving
  • Identity
  • Social

• I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • People
  • Engineering
  • Generations

• Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Weird

• As Elizabeth Fisher pointed out in Woman's Creation, human history's first and longest reigning social unit was the mother and child, not the husband and wife.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Unit

• Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

  

  Michael Beck Die Fantastischen Vier
  • Life
  • Art
  • Sitting

• Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.

  

  Alain Finkielkraut
  • Language
  • Fit
  • Determine

• As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Way
  • Actresses
  • Disorder

• Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

  

  Marshall Field
  • Reality
  • Form
  • Worship

• If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Southern States

• Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

  

  William H. Hastie
  • Planning
  • Hopeful
  • Strategic

• In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

  

  Virginia Johnson
  • Social
  • Medicine
  • Draws

• Man has been adjudged a social animal.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Social

• No one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Progress
  • Horse
  • Facts

• I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Democracy
  • Equality
  • Ideal

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