Social Quotes - Page 14

• Language is a social event.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Events, Language, Social Events

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• In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.

  Wilder Penfield

  Ignorance, Destiny, Men

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• While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Hard Work, Difficult Work, Israel

  Walter Brueggemann (1999). “The Covenanted Self: Explorations in Law and Covenant”, p.49, Fortress Press

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• There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

  Amartya Sen

  World, Women's Education, Significance

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• Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.

  Seymour Krim

  Meaningful, Thinking, Psychosis

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• My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Giving Up, Drinking, Bars

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• We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Jesus, Father

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.54, SPCK

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• The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Race, Support

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.37, Broadway Books

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• There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, White, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.312, Princeton University Press

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• Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Law, Opinion, Sometimes

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.47, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

  John Dewey

  Views, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.344, Courier Corporation

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• All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

  John Dewey

  Moral, Life Is, Share

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.345, Courier Corporation

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• Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

  John Dewey

  Regulation, Consciousness, Individual

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

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• I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

  John Dewey

  Children, Believe, Demand

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.229, Indiana University Press

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• Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Life Is, Genuine

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

  John Dewey

  Groups, Relation, Social Groups

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.

  Thurgood Marshall

  War, Rights, Government

  "RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan" by Russell Berman, thehill.com. May 11, 2010.

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• Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...

  Russ Feingold

  Cutting, Benefits, Tables

  "Russ Feingold: Nancy Pelosi Needs To Stand Strong" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

  Robert Reich

  Retirement, Needs, Asking

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• The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.

  David Amerland

  Media, Heard, Noisy

  David Amerland (2015). “SEO Help: 20 Semantic Search Steps that Will Help Your Business Grow”, p.43, New Line Publishing

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• A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.

  Eboo Patel

  Reality, Ideas, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.

  Emily Yoffe

  Writing, People, Advice

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Photography, Song, Writing

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years of 'Alice'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 19, 2015.

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• What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Issues, Community, Political

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.

  Alex Kendrick

  Kids, Son, Skills

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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