Social Quotes - page 4

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. (Joseph Stiglitz)
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them. View quote
Jane Goodall
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
When I hear the words "social responsibility", I want to reach for my gun. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. View quote
Gary Becker
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. View quote
Edward Sapir
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. View quote
Stephen Harper
...they want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program. View quote
George W. Bush
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it. (Carrie Underwood)
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Work is valued by the social value of the worker. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The dominant social thought shapes the institutionalized order of society... and the malfunctioning of established institutions in turn alters social thought. View quote
Theodore Schultz
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. View quote
Louis Sullivan
I don't ever try to make a serious social comment. View quote
Paul McCartney
Game theory is a theory of strategic interaction. That is to say, it is a theory of rational behavior in social situations in which each player has to choose his moves on the basis of what he thinks the other players' countermoves are likely to be. View quote
John Harsanyi
If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. View quote
John Harsanyi
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. (Philip Zimbardo)
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. View quote
Stella Adler