Social Groups Quotes

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

  Rollo May

  Personality, Community, Healthy

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• Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Joy, Feelings, Together

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• A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Exercise, Winning, Groups

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• And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

  Caitlin Moran

  Party, Book, Library

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.74, Random House

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• When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Flare Up, Drug, Groups

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.

  John Dewey

  Important Relationships, Personality, Groups

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

  John Dewey

  School, Opportunity, Office

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

  William O. Douglas

  Political, Groups, Favors

  "Uphaus v. Wyman, 364 U.S. 388". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 14, 1960.

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• Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group
  without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Groups, Halos

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

  Arthur Koestler

  Society, Adults, Groups

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Fog, Groups

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• Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

  John Dewey

  Groups, Gaps, Habit

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

  Lynne Truss

  Simple, Skills, Icons

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• When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

  Steve Vai

  Issues, Insecurity, Groups

  Interview with Alan Di Perna, www.guitarworld.com. November 30, 2012.

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• Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cities, Firsts, Groups

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.178, Faber & Faber

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• At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

  Sean Parker

  People, Groups, Social

  "Friending the New York Scene" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2011.

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• ... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

  Rene Dubos

  Civilization, Community, Groups

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• All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Groups, Coercion, Cooperation

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.183, Library of America

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• Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

  George H. Mead

  Determination, Psychology, Groups

  "Mind, Self, and Society". Book by George H. Mead, 1934.

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• The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

  Azim Premji

  Character, Community, Canada

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• Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social groups of various kinds (academics, bloggers, peer-to-peer file sharing), rather than as the result of profit-oriented investment. Rather than taking the lead, the business and government sectors have adopted innovations developed in Internet communities, and realised significant productivity gains as a result.

  John Quiggin

  Communication, Government, Effort

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• No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Commitment, Sacrifice, Order

  "European leaders predict 2012 will be worse than 2011" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.

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• Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

  Toby Stephens

  Jobs, Growing Up, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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