Social Service Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

  Ellen Goodman

  Social Values, Recycling, Boxes

  "Saigon Swap". www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1990.

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• Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Motherhood, Matter

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 8), 1928.

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• The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate this thrust and no dollars for education or jobs or social services...we have become a repository but no beneficiary of federal actions.

  Sharon Pratt Kelly

  Jobs, Frustration, Years

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• One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Pregnancy

  "It's Bad for Ya". Comedy album by George Carlin, 2008.

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Husband, People

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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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• All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

  Isabel Allende

  Loyalty, Writing, Issues

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

  Tyne Daly

  Thinking, Parent, Important

  "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Behaviour, Attention

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• Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphsof psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

  Johan Huizinga

  War, Lying, Mean

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• New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.

  Alexander Theroux

  Moving, Mean, Eggs

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• In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

  Nick Clooney

  Running, Hype, President

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• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  C. L. R. James

  Country, Profound, Upheaval

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• Through my Faith-Based and Community Initiative, my Administration continues to encourage the essential work of faith-based and community organizations. Governments can and should support effective social services, including those provided by religious people and organizations. When government gives that support, it is important that faith-based institutions not be forced to change their religious character.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Humor, Character

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