Social Quotes - Page 18

• All failures are so because they lack social interest.

  Alfred Adler

  Interest

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• Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Successful, Loss

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• I think governments are quietly terrified. There's massive unemployment, a recession they don't know how to deal with, and the measures they've taken are not working yet, and maybe they're not going to work. There's a prospect of significant social disorder.

  Simon Critchley

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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• I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Details, Fiction, Stories

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

  Richard Branson

  Organization, Issues, Benefits

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• There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

  Aga Khan IV

  Long, Greed, Ethical

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• The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

  Noam Chomsky

  Engineering, America, Construction

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• I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

  Denis Dutton

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Giving Up, Passion, Order

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• There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.

  Whit Stillman

  Crazy, People, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time.

  Jenna Coleman

  Drama, Two, Dancing

  "Doctor Who’s Impossible Girl". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2014.

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• Everything also calms down with the influx of social media, there's so much happening all the time.

  Kate Walsh

  Media, Calm, Happenings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• [While] physically traveling someplace or experiencing someplace firsthand, physically versus - which is what a lot of young people do - the experience is mitigated through technology and through social media.

  Marco Brambilla

  Technology, Media, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

  Megan McArdle

  Moving, Equilibrium, Difficult

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• In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Victory, Important, Analysis

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• ....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Three, Going Out, World

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.178, Penguin

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• Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.

  Doug Bandow

  Real, Selfish, Thinking

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• It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.

  Michael Coren

  Gun, Issues, Favour

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• No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent.

  Ron Paul

  Taken, Promise, Reform

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• The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.

  Jim Tully

  Moon, Night, Men

  Jim Tully (2004). “Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography”, p.167, AK Press

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• The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.

  Thomas Szasz

  Becoming, Vulnerable, Victim

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• Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

  Alan Barth

  Art, Attitude, Spring

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• The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

  Peter Drucker

  Function, Enterprise, Humans

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “A Functioning Society: Community, Society, and Polity in the Twentieth Century”, p.228, Transaction Publishers

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• For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!

  Angela Ahrendts

  Today, Ceo, Enterprise

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