Social Quotes - Page 17

• Self respect beats social approval, every time.

  Robin Sharma

  Self, Approval, Beats

  Twitter post from Nov 27, 2016

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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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• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Rivals, Favors, Welcome

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.

  Questlove

  Art, Years, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

  Mike Huckabee

  Military, People, Purpose

  Twitter post from Aug 07, 2015

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• Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

  Clay Shirky

  Moving, Past, Egalitarianism

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.63, Penguin

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• When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Hands, Games

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

  Brian Molko

  Sex, Confused, Mean

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• We have to define our top priority pending expenditures; these are, first and foremost, our social expenditures, and we have to cut on expenditures that we cannot currently afford. This is the very least we should do in 2015

  Anton Siluanov

  Cutting, Priorities, Firsts

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• The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Country, Unique

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• Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

  J. G. Ballard

  Self, Demand, Matter

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• Language is a social event.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Events, Language, Social Events

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• While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hard Work, Difficult Work, Israel

  Walter Brueggemann (1999). “The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant”, p.49, Fortress Press

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• There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

  Amartya Sen

  World, Women's Education, Significance

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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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• A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

  John Dewey

  Views, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.344, Courier Corporation

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• Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

  John Dewey

  Regulation, Consciousness, Individual

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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• Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.

  Seymour Krim

  Meaningful, Thinking, Psychosis

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• To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.

  Thurgood Marshall

  War, Rights, Government

  "RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan" by Russell Berman, thehill.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...

  Russ Feingold

  Cutting, Benefits, Tables

  "Russ Feingold: Nancy Pelosi Needs To Stand Strong" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.

  David Amerland

  Media, Heard, Noisy

  David Amerland (2015). “SEO Help: 20 Semantic Search Steps that Will Help Your Business Grow”, p.43, New Line Publishing

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• A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.

  Eboo Patel

  Reality, Ideas, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Issues, Community, Political

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.

  Alex Kendrick

  Kids, Son, Skills

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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