Social Quotes - Page 16

• Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other people more, share ideas more.

  Vieux Farka Toure

  Thinking, Play, Ideas

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• Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Hurt, Believe

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• Muqtada is radical in the sense that he wants the U.S. occupation to end and has always said so from the beginning. Secondly, his support among the Shia really runs along class lines; it's mainly the poor who support him. His organization runs an enormous social network.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Running, Class, Organization

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• Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.

  David Amerland

  Real, Media, Giving

  David Amerland (2015). “The Social Media Mind: How social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order”, p.59, New Line Publishing

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• Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

  David Amerland

  Media, Doe, Rockets

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• Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

  Audre Lorde

  Emotional, Play, Empowering

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Dover Publications

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• There is a clear connection between developing the skills and talents of young people, and our economic success as a province. Initiatives like the Make Your Pitch competition and the Ontario Social Impact Voucher help us nurture the next generation of business leaders. We will continue creating an inviting environment for our next generation of entrepreneurs, ensuring they develop the right skills needed to succeed in a globally competitive economy and build the future of Ontario.

  Brad Duguid

  Skills, Creating, Impact

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• Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

  Max More

  Mean, Technology, Emotional

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• I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.

  Adam Hasner

  Community, Leader, Groups

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• Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards. I don't violate them when I want to sound like an educated person, for the same reason I don't wear a bikini to a funeral when I want to look like a respectful person. There are social conventions for the way we do lots of things, and it is to everyone's benefit to be familiar with them. But logic ain't got nothin' to do with it.

  Arika Okrent

  Judging, Funeral, Sound

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• We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into businesses that also positively contribute to social or environmental benefits in Ontario. Angel investors can help social enterprises grow and succeed, and through our partnership with the Network of Angel Organizations and the Impact Angel Alliance, we are making it easier for social ventures and angel investors to connect, contribute, and make our society a better place to live.

  Brad Duguid

  Angel, Organization, Impact

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• He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Lines, Honest, Prestige

  David Josiah Brewer (1905). “The United States a Christian Nation”

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• Twitter is part of our social fabric

  Joel Comm

  Fabric

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• I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

  Malik Bendjelloul

  Thinking, Men, Sugar

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• I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.

  Hugh Hendry

  Mood, Interpretation, Activity

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• What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about the real thing is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

  Douglas Lain

  Memories, Real, Ideas

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• An 11 year old sister has been taught by the media that her body is an object, will be compared to other bodies, and that it holds more significance than her mind or talent. This should not be the first thing she learns. This should not be her first social experience.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Media, Years, Mind

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• For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.

  Cory Bernardi

  Loneliness, Communication, Technology

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• The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Book, Writing, Europe

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• Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.

  Kenan Malik

  Exercise, Thinking, Bridges

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• Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

  Nir Eyal

  Pain, Acceptance, Rejection

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.41, Penguin

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• The social and economic impact of the earthquake is still very present and is contributing to mental health problems, the mother who lost her husband, or children who lost their parents, and who now are responsible for the whole family, taking children to school and providing food. This transition is still causing stress and depression.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

  Brian Herbert

  Order, Groups, Needs

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.194, Spectra

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• What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

  Richard Branson

  What Matters, Differences, Making A Difference

  Richard Branson (2008). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin Pub

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• Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Law, Opinion, Sometimes

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.47, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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