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• When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

  Octavio Paz

  Criticism, Decay, Firsts

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.263, Grove Press

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• Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

  Octavio Paz

  Criticism, Grammar, Critics

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.263, Grove Press

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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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• Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

  John Stott

  Christian, Responsibility, Impossible

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.93, InterVarsity Press

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• The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

  Colin Powell

  Government, Roots, Abet

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• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Jordan, Social Life

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• Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

  Tammy Bruce

  Giving Up, Class, Progress

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.69, Crown Forum

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• Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class

  Adolf Hitler

  Class, People, Proud

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• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

  E. O. Wilson

  Organization, Earth, Next

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• It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

  Heather Brewer

  People, Tough, Attempting

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.37, Penguin

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• Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul, Body, Structure

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• She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

  George Meredith

  Gossip, Ears, Littles

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• When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

  John Boyd Orr

  Social Unrest, Fabric, Revolution

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• The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army

  Jay Baer

  Army, Media, Volunteer

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• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

  Cesar Chavez

  Social Change, Humiliate

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.266, Penguin

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• Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Technology, Important, Tools

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• Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, People, Needs

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

  Shimon Peres

  Communication, Space, Internet

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse?

  Jay Baer

  Horse, Media, Unicorn

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• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Inspiration, Humanity

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• Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

  Kevin Carson

  Change, Order, Law

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• Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

  Susan Sontag

  Imagination, Growing, Disease

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• You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Should, Manage

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• To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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