Social Quotes - page 3

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. (John Boyd Orr)
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. View quote
Cameron Sinclair
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. View quote
Christopher Lasch
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. View quote
Iris Chang
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. View quote
Ernst Fischer
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life. (Charles Krauthammer)
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. View quote
Claude McKay
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. View quote
Horace Mann
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. View quote
Harry S. Truman
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization. View quote
Kofi Annan
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
The intelligence of the universe is social. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. View quote
Freda Adler
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. (Norman Borlaug)
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
To be social is to be forgiving. View quote
Robert Frost
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. View quote
John Rawls