Social Quotes - Page 32

• Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, Principles, Plight

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• The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

  James Cook

  Information, Life Is, Planners

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• The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of the social sciences, and only textbooks supporting their ideas are used.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Nike, America, Justice

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• Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Opposites, Peaceful

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• The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Competition, Economic, Function

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• The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of the Left parties was essential but the party is opposed to the Left in Kerala because UDF's aim is to ensure economic development and social harmony.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Party, Support, Challenges

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• It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Issues, Class

  "Celebrity Candidate Casting Call" by Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2006.

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• The president (George W. Bush) says let's have private accounts, and take the surplus money that's being gathered now in Social Security and put it into private accounts. That works.

  Mitt Romney

  President, Surplus, Accounts

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• No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it.

  Mitt Romney

  Retirement, Talking, Answers

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• Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that don't measure crucial factors are the ones who have closed minds. Sometimes the Bible gives us clear answers and sometimes it doesn't, but it always helps us to ask the right questions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Biblical, Giving, Mind

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• I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  School, Way, Feels

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• Many people in my constituency come to see me absolutely distraught at the prospect of losing their private rented flat because of the imposition of a housing benefit cut. Social cleansing is going on in all of central London because of the benefit cap. That is a disgraceful situation.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Cutting, People, London

  "West Coast Rail Franchise". House of Commons meeting, Oral Answers to Questions, publications.parliament.uk. December 6, 2012.

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• Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Rajiv Gandhi (1991). “Selected Speeches and Writings: January 1989 to November 1989”

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• The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

  John Hardon

  Children, Law, World

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• Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Past, Years, Differences

  Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

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• Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

  William Browne

  Trying, Investing, Natural

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• I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Laughing, Political

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• The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

  Terence McKenna

  Community, Peculiar, Substance

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• Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Wizards, World

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Emotions: Outline of a Theory”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• Content is the fire. Social media is the gasoline.

  Jay Baer

  Fire, Media, Gasoline

  Jay Baer (2013). “Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype”, p.93, Penguin

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• The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

  Terence McKenna

  Heaven, Agendas, Earth

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• The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for this must in return receive exactly the same rights, not merely legal, but social and spiritual, that other Americans proudly possess. We of the United States belong to a new and separate nationality. We are all Americans and nothing else, and each, without regard to his birthplace, creed, or national origin, is entitled to exactly the same rights as all other Americans.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Country, Giving Up

  Theodore Roosevelt (1921). “Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials”

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• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Despair, Psychedelic

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• The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Biblical

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