Social Quotes

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.

I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

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.

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook.

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.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

I never knew I was so stupid or so ugly until there was social media.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.