Social Quotes

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experi...

I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I...

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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

Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slov...

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making ...

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, en...

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degrada...

There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal ...

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that...

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

We’re not making a world without greed, Jacob. We’re making a world where greed is a perversion. Whe...

You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that’s the same as going there.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the s...

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's someth...

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, p...

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agr...

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of soc...

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man...

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular id...

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any n...

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any n...

There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are ...

I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appea...

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apath...

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and ...

[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East...

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that r...

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and t...

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

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

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet...

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and pol...

There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are...

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various process...

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the prov...

I think women are excellent social critics.

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says...

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work,...

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, an...

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

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the ...

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superi...

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the con...

The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore pea...

Imagine a hundred million people clicking polls and typing in their favorite TV shows and products a...

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the ha...

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cum...

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any...

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other...

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions, and learn to determine the value of your indiv...

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that y...

Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting tog...

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. ...

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society be...

To be social is to be forgiving.

Because feelings, emotional and physical, are so foregrounded in sexual encounters, the orgy is soon...

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-s...

cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly ac...

Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for ...

The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by ...

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits...

There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it ha...

Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious...

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewh...

How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and...

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction betw...

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to ...

Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human act...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to ...

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in tr...

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the ...

. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves...

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or so...