Social Quotes - Page 5

• Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

  Tony Honore

  Opportunity, Essence, Justice

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• In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

  George Robinson

  Being Yourself, Perfect, Effort

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• It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Order, Punishment

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• Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

  Edward Norton

  People, Networking, Tools

  Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

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• The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

  Karl Marx

  People, Way, Communism

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• At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

  Eric Jay Beck

  Lying, Climbing, Class

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• To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

  Rowan Williams

  Communication, Journalism, Conversation

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

  J. B. Jackson

  Giving, Identity, Position

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Biblical, Voice, Giving

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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• The designer [...] has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists. [...] The designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.

  David E. Kelley

  Dream, Passion, Simple

  "The Designer’s Stance". Interview with Bradley Hartfield, hci.stanford.edu.

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• The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Home, Heart, School

  William Ellery Channing (1837). “Essays, Literary & Political”, p.364

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• The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Believe, Fall

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• This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

  Edward de Bono

  War, Inspiration, Justice

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• Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
  In learned doctor's spite;
  Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
  And lap me in delight.

  Charles Sprague Sargent

  Clouds, Doctors, Smoking

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• The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

  Sam Harris

  Maximizing, Morality, Ethics

  "Print: Atheism's Poster Boy Sam Harris on the Science of Morality". Interview with Olivia Koski, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.

  Chris Lynch

  Clouds, Data, Foundation

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• Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Speeches on various occasions”, p.108

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• Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

  John Adams

  Government, Religion, Foundation

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.501, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

  Steve Allen

  Helping, Spots, Get Over

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

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• One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

  Steve Allen

  Evil, Religion, Responsible

  Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

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• I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.

  Matthew Fox

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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• Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.

  Michael Lerner

  Creativity, School, Caring

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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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• For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

  John Howard

  Powerful, Real, Men

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