Social Quotes

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  The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33

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• There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

  Hudson Taylor

  Successful, Support, Majority

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• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Friendship, Success

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Wisdom, Bad Relationship

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Man is a social animal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

  "De Beneficiis" Book VII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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

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• Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Pride, San Francisco

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• Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

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• Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Media, Voice, Giving

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• Focus On How To Be Social, Not On How To Do Social.

  Jay Baer

  Focus, Social Media

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• Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Expression, Insecurity

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

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• All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

  Karl Marx

  Peace, Ubuntu, Practice

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• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

  G. M. Trevelyan

  People, Politics, Might

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• The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Eugenics, Population, Body

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• Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

  Brian Solis

  Technology, Media, Psychology

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• Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

  Edward de Bono

  Honesty, Social Values, Long

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.

  Star Parker

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Government

  Star Parker (2015). “Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America”, p.6, Sumner Books

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• The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

  Murray Bookchin

  Diversity, Unity, Principles

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.41, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• You must fight social media fire with social media water.

  Jay Baer

  Fighting, Fire, Media

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Order

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• Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

  Jay Baer

  Inspirational, Media, Peers

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• Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

  Jane Addams

  Doe, Charity, Moral

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.227, Courier Corporation

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• Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

  Bill Drayton

  Teacher, Fishing, Giving

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