Be Social Quotes

Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social network.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.

The Presidents plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy.

I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.

Surely, that's what interns were invented for?

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I do now. My first reaction was that staying in Japan might be good for my social life.

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then leave them less money for financing their growth.

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.

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.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.