Social Quotes

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. (Vladimir Lenin)
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. View quote
Margaret Mead
First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. View quote
Ron Paul
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. View quote
Earl Warren
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. View quote
Solomon Asch
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. (Erich Fromm)
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. View quote
Karl Marx
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. View quote
Albert Einstein
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it. View quote
Charles Cooley
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. View quote
Rockwell Kent
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. View quote
William James
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. View quote
Robert Frost
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. View quote
Margaret Mead
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. (Marian Wright Edelman)
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. View quote
James Tobin
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar