Social Service Quotes - Page 2

• Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Canada, Mask

  "National Post" Newspaper, December 8, 2000.

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• The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Sight, Attachment

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

  G. M. Trevelyan

  People, Politics, Might

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• Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Broken, Covenant, Social

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• Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

  Michael N. Castle

  Teaching, School, Nursing

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• In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

  George Orwell

  Energy, Tests, Get Money

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mother, Baby, Ebay

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.183, St. Martin's Press

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• Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Home, Practice

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• Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

  Joan Didion

  Mirrors, Ideas, Flawless

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.91, Zola Books

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• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.106, Rajpal & Sons

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• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Politics, Revolution

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• I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

  Joan Jett

  Age, Social, Young

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• Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

  Aly Khan

  Islam, Roles, Unjust

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• The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

  Stockwell Day

  Past, Government, Engineering

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• From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Government, Leader

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  Gary Numan

  Mean, Autism, Being Different

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• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

  Evita Peron

  Book, History, Use

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• How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Cities, Long

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “Indian Currency and Finance: The Economist”, p.58, 北戴河出版

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• Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

  Tom Robbins

  Halloween, Giving, Scary

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.418, Bantam

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• The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

  Shirley Temple

  Educational, Done, World

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• If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

  Glenn Beck

  Justice, Bishops, Pushing

  Interview with Gary Kopycinski, enewspf.com. March 15, 2010.

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• I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

  Jose Saramago

  Political, Kind, Imagine

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

  Edward Sapir

  Reality, Two, Language

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

  Ezra Pound

  Vacuums, Doe, Use

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Two Nations, Welfare Programs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

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