Social Quotes - Page 28

• I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.

  Emily Yoffe

  Writing, People, Advice

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Photography, Song, Writing

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years of 'Alice'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 19, 2015.

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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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• Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

  Scott Pelley

  Army, Government, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The huge amount of love and support I've been receiving, whether it's in the fashion industry itself or on social media, truly warms my heart and motivates me to be a voice for all the women out there.

  Maria Borges

  Fashion, Heart, Voice

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!

  Maria Borges

  Voice, Media, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Emotional, Skills, Choices

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say “We’re going to move.” Then she moves off and everybody just follows.

  Patricia Wright

  Moving, Leader, Littles

  "Interview: “Island Of Lemurs” Filmmakers". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. April 5, 2014.

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• Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.

  Mark Durie

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.

  Noam Chomsky

  Class, Goal, Historical

  "On the War on Drugs". Week Online interview, chomsky.info. February 8, 2002.

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• Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

  danah boyd

  Grease, Networking, Machines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Simple, Division Of Labor

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• In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.

  Dan Ariely

  Country, Jobs, Kids

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, President, Citizens

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Government, People, Evil

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.71, Lulu.com

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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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• Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Law, Parent

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

  Joseph Campbell

  Old Things, Together Again, Elements

  Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

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• Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Attitude, Way, Productivity

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.25, Bantam

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• If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe in a complete democracy - individual, political, social, economic. If we really had that, which we don't now, it would be in harmony with divine purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Believe, Government, People

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.155, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Small Changes, Epidemics, Differences

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• Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

  Mark McKinnon

  Night, Media, Race

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Memories, Moving, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

  Mary Travers

  Struggle, Silent, Passive

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• Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Animal, Brain, Groups

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