Social Quotes

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
-Albert Einstein

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
-Albert Einstein

"It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor."
-Horace Mann

"Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation."
-John Dewey

"Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is life itself."
-John Dewey

"Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
-Mike Ditka

"I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs."
-Anita Roddick

"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed."
-John Galsworthy

"There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."
-Milton Friedman

"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."
-George W. Bush

"Excessive literary production is a social offense."
-George Eliot

"Given that the regulation would be largely social in nature, it would be difficult to pursue without majority support from deer hunters. We will continue to look at different ways of managing deer populations that incorporate biological and social aspects of deer management."
-Lou Cornicelli

"Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year."
-Bill Weld

"They will also spend some time talking about the social issues."
-Daniel Park

"We already witnessed the effect of the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from last year's hurricanes. It would have huge social and economic effects on the entire country."
-Bill Ellsworth

"Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments."
-Tom Coburn

"We're trying to provide a complete service, from teachers to social workers."
-Mary Loehnis

"As a social service agency, I don't see a slackening, ... After 9/11, we cut off solicitation to New York and D.C., but the giving has come back. I don't believe our success or failure will be determined by these natural disasters."
-Robert Sweeney

"I don't find Senator Frist to be a social fundamentalist. . . ."
-Marvin Kalb

"I got involved in this because being raised in a certain kind of family gets you involved in political action early. I thought it was normal to have parents talk about social issues and politics and economics for two hours at the dinner table."
-Corey Woods

"The quality of life, which in the ardor of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer."
-Henry Beston

"When people can fulfill their potential they become innovators. The innovative economy is competitive and makes it possible to finance the welfare state, which is not just a cost, but a sustainable basis for the economy, producing new innovators with social protection."
-Pekka Himanen

"The main reason for the festival has little to do with marijuana itself. It's more about offering an awesome festival for students. It's part entertainment, but it's also about social justice. You may not know it's about marijuana unless you see some of the propaganda around at the booths."
-Spencer Edelman

"Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out."
-Roy Harper

"Social change is a messy process. We need more men with the guts to stand up and say abusive behavior is abusive behavior, and it's not right, and it doesn't make me less of a man to point that out."
-Jackson Katz

"The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change."
-Stockwell Day

"While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm."
-Dorothy Denning