Be Social Quotes

A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

For better or worse, the United States enjoys the lion's share of public and media attention. We influence much of the conversation on social and public media by sheer volume.

I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

There is no such thing as a “social gospel.” It is a misnomer. There is only one Gospel. “If any man preach any other gospel unto you . . .let him be accursed” [Galatians 1:9 KJV].

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.