Social Life Quotes - Page 9

• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

  Walter Lippmann

  Change, Mean, Social

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I don't really have a social life.

  David Mamet

  Social

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• Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Religious, Order, Political

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• All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

  Karl Marx

  Peace, Ubuntu, Practice

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• Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

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• One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Color, People

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• For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

  Gary Kemp

  Real, Past, Years

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• Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give them a definite shape. Its mental expression is dead dogma; its physical manifestation of life, brute force. This lack of intelligence in its endeavours leaves its imprint likewise on the persons of its representatives, gradually making them mentally inferior and brutal, even though they were originally excellently endowed. Nothing dulls the mind and soul of man as does the eternal monotony of routine, and power is essentially routine.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Expression, Law

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• Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just shrunk up - unevenly I might add - and eventually turned into wine-cork nubs. Then it would be a different story. Then men would get the pity that they deserve. As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast cancer only worse, because almost everyone gets it. True, it's not life threatening. Just social-life threatening. But in New York City, there is no difference.

  Augusten Burroughs

  New York, Cancer, Wine

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• Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

  A. J. Muste

  Educational, Struggle, Class

  "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.

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• Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  God, Faith, Christian

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis". Book by Walter Rauschenbusch, 1913.

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• Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

  Joel Achenbach

  Coffee, Special, Social

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• A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Communication, Amplify, Information

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• I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

  Daniel Johns

  Want, Boring, Social

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• A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Science, Healthy, Want

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• One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.

  Judith Martin

  Selling Things, Relaxation, Groups

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• Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

  John Jay Chapman

  Hate, Squash, America

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.22, University of Illinois Press

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• 'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

  Anthony Hamilton

  School, Successful, Love Is

  Interview with Lori Lane, www.mtv.co.uk. May 10, 2012.

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• When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

  Tim Burton

  People, Kind, Like You

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective participation, experience with organizational roles, and group support in the enterprise of growing up. Groups also pose for the child some of the most acute problems of social life--of inclusion and exclusion, conformity and independence.

  Zick Rubin

  Children, Growing Up, Support

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• We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?

  Catharine Beecher

  Medicine, Foundation, Principles

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.9

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• All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Men, Progress, Neighbor

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1944). “Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons”

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• True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

  Frances Harper

  Oil, Shining, Ruts

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.397, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.

  Robert L. Payton

  Self, Giving, Political

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• Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Humility, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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