Social Quotes - Page 9

• Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

  Ziggy Marley

  Spiritual, Political, World

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

  John Osborne

  Fear, Self, Censorship

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• The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

  Paul Goodman

  Issues, People, Grace

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• In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.

  John Howard

  Mean, Government, Mixtures

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• For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

  Mike McCurry

  Social Activism, Progressive, Theology

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• We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Cutting, Thinking

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• We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we do. This is what sets us apart from the chimps. They are extremely brutal and hostile. Your next door neighbor is to be killed unless she is a juicy young female, who hasn't yet had her first baby, in which case you want her.

  Jane Goodall

  Baby, Responsibility, Doors

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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• I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.

  Ziggy Marley

  Spiritual, Thinking, Political

  "Ziggy Marley Explains His Identity". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, House, Sitting Down

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.

  Michael Haneke

  Simple, People, Feudal System

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Differences, Balance, Making A Difference

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

  Charles Stross

  Skills, Novelists, Networking

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• Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

  Adam Baldwin

  Nerd, Acting, Band

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Self, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.

  Emma Donoghue

  Art, Writing, Smell

  "The Keeper of Room". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• A lot of social media saved my ass, so I'm totally for it.

  Sky Ferreira

  Media, Ass, Saved

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that social media can be used for good and for bad.

  Lexi Ainsworth

  Thinking, Media, Used

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• In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

  E. W. Scripps

  Practice, America, Presses

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• For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

  James Ellroy

  Mean, Self, Talking

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

  Charles Fourier

  Youth, Made, Periods

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• There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

  Mary Oliver

  People, Creative, World

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.21, Penguin

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• Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Treasure

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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• We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

  Thomas Szasz

  Birth, States, Institutions

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.278, Routledge

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• If we work for social change - and it is good to do such things - let us always do it with an awakened heart big enough for all. There is no enemy; there is only ignorance. There is no one to hate, only many to love.

  John Kehoe

  Hate, Heart, Ignorance

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• ...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

  George Jonas

  Government, Engineering, Law

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