Social Quotes - Page 29

• The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Biblical

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• I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social change I could be, so I try to find different ways to do it and I'm always challenging myself to find new things, learn new instruments. But I always try to find in my heart, what it is I really want to say with words.

  Michael Franti

  Heart, Ideas, Challenges

  "Reasoning with Michael Franti". Interview with Marlon Regis, jahworks.org.

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• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  C. Wagner

  Three, Social Transformation, Violence

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• Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks of human beings throughout the world. Their major assignment is to prevent God from being glorified in their territory, which they do through directing the activity of lower-ranking demons.

  C. Wagner

  Cities, Evil, People

  C. Peter Wagner (2012). “Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare: Wrestling with Dark Angels”, p.43, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees. But actually that's our strength, not our weakness. Our intellectual training qualifies us better than any scientist - social or natural sciences - for us to understand that this is, au fond, not a scientific debate but a cultural and rhetorical one.

  James Delingpole

  Art, Training, Intellectual

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• I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

  Ross McKitrick

  Earth, Hours, Electricity

  "Earth Hour: A Dissent". wattsupwiththat.com. March 17, 2011.

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• In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract.

  Noam Chomsky

  Xenophobia, Europe, Growth

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview with the Wall St Journal in which he said the social contract's dead; we finally got rid of it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Leader, President

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.

  David Roediger

  Keys, Color, Southern

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Mutual Support, Fabric Of Life, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you can dress as a stormtrooper and go to a laundromat, or wear a sexy cheese gown in public, you might start to find "normal" social interactions a little less daunting.

  Misha Collins

  Sexy, Littles, Might

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Objectivity, Perspective

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• Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Anxiety, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

  Annie Lennox

  Medicine, People, Needs

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

  Annie Lennox

  Empowering, Support, Community

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• The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Justice, Revolution, Dignity

  Interview with Joseph Mayton, progressive.org. December 12, 2011.

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• The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.

  Bruce Sterling

  Mean, Ideas, Guy

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• We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

  Todd Haynes

  Baby, Gay, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Responsibility, Differences, People

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• I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

  PJ Harvey

  War, Ignorant, Way

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• Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Self, Body, Individual

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• You've gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they're not a part of the whole social media world.

  Kevin Hart

  Stars, Media, Age

  "Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, and the Cast of THINK LIKE A MAN TOO Talk Sequels, Improvisation, and Filming in a Casino in Our Set Visit Interview". Interview on the Set, collider.com. May 20, 2014.

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• The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teaching, Successful, Demand

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Numbers, Essentials, Variables

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• Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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