Social Quotes - Page 30

• Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Entrepreneurial, Tautology, Oxymoron

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.19, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.

  Donella Meadows

  Self, Long, Innovation

  Donella H. Meadows (2009). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.160, Earthscan

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• Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time of his death, his fundamental way of thought had supplanted the system of John Maynard Keynes - his chief intellectual rival of the century - in the battle since the 1930s for the minds of economists and the policies of governments.

  Julian Simon

  Government, Mind, Intellectual

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• Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized fashion is one of the most important intellectual developments of the late twentieth century." He correctly attributes the modern origins of this argument to F. A. Hayek, whose pioneering contributions to cognitive science, the study of cultural evolution, and the dynamics of social change put him in the forefront of the most creative scholars of the 20th century.

  Douglass North

  Fashion, Writing, Order

  "Orders of the Day" by Douglass North, reason.com. November 1999.

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• Entitlements is not sic the issue. And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage the American people and tell us how many seniors in nursing homes do we want to throw out in the street? ... And then who wants to make a fuss about Medicare when it's solvent until 2024? ... Who wants to make a fuss about Social Security when it's solvent - and it's about, 'You earned it'?

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Senior, Home, Nursing

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• Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Corporations, Economic, Institutions

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• Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it's a social crime.

  Narendra Modi

  Children, Technology, Crime

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• I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

  Ben Stein

  Teacher, Law, California

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

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• It used to be, people were afraid to talk about Social Security. Now, I think people should be afraid not to talk about Social Security and start coming up with some solutions.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, People, Used

  George W. Bush's speech on Social Security in Little Rock, Arkansas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 4, 2005.

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• Social Security should be phased out and ended altogether. ... Social Security in any form is morally irredeemable. We should be debating, not how to save Social Security, but how to end it - how to phase it out so as to best protect both the rights of those who have paid into it, and those who are forced to pay for it today. This will be a painful task. But it will make possible a world in which Americans enjoy far greater freedom to secure their own futures.

  Alex Epstein

  Rights, World, Phases

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• My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?

  Cal Thomas

  Retirement, Children, Mean

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• Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Justice, Social Justice, Incomplete

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• A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

  Thomas Sowell

  Commitment, Talking, Knowing

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• Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

  Paul Brodeur

  People, Disease, Paranoia

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• I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize . You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.

  Frank Zappa

  Running, Recovery, Army

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• Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Quality, Needs, Punctuality

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.25, Routledge

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• The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

  Karl Marx

  Past, Superstitions, Revolution

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• Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all Religious establishments, the simple question to be decided, is whether a support of the best & purest religion, the Christian religion itself ought not, so far at least as pecuniary means are involved, to be provided for by the Government, rather than be left to the voluntary provisions of those who profess it.

  James Madison

  Christian, Religious, Mean

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• The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Tragedy, May, Realizing

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• The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.

  Paul Fussell

  Class, Facts, Weight

  Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.

  Michael Anti

  Rights, Media, People

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• Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Impact, People

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• I don’t want to be rude, but I’m not that social. When I say, “I never go out,” I mean, “I never go out.”

  Emily Rios

  Mean, Rude, Want

  "Q&A – Emily Rios (Andrea)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2010.

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• There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.

  Patton Oswalt

  Happy Life, Media, People

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• I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.

  Ian Mckellen

  Atheist, Gay, Impact

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