Social Quotes - Page 31

• The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Dream, Men

  Frank Schaeffer (1982). “A time for anger: the myth of neutrality”, Good News Publishers

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• If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Psychics

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• Before the New York Times starts running "Portraits in Grief" of former Enron employees, it's worth remembering that even after the collapse, Enron stock is still worth more than the entire Social Security "trust fund."

  Ann Coulter

  Running, New York, Grief

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.128, Crown Forum

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• The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.

  Saddam Hussein

  Building Up, Oil, Challenges

  "President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day", Baghdad : Dar al-Ma'mun for Translation and Pub, 1981.

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• Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

  George Pell

  Children, Couple, Divorce

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• For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Holiday, Letters, Littles

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• What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

  James Madison

  Order, Liberty, Normal

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• Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Taken, Brain, Lines

  "Joy 24x7". Book by Jaggi Vasudev, 2008.

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• Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not.

  Ben Shapiro

  Believe, Rights, Office

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• [T]here's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators who want to get re-elected will clearly want to avoid any spending decision that will create bad national publicity, and our news media, the manufacturers of bad national publicity, will send crying victims down the assembly line at the slightest thought of a social spending cut or freeze. Exhibit A is Sen. Jim Bunning.

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

  Eye, Cutting, Media

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• Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.

  Erich Fromm

  Caring, Men, Challenges

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• When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Two, Quality

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Passion, Reality

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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• While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need gospel proclamation, for as much as people may see our good deeds, they cannot hear the good news unless we tell them. Social justice, though valuable as an expression of Christian love, should, especially as a churchwide endeavor, serve the goal of gospel proclamation.

  Darrin Patrick

  Christian, Heart, Expression

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• To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.

  James Davison Hunter

  Jesus, Light, Order

  James Davison Hunter (2010). “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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• The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

  William J. Clinton

  Class, Political, Example

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1053, Best Books on

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• The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they're going to get a bunch of money, when in reality they never see any of it. The most popular of these scams is called Social Security.

  Colin Quinn

  Thinking, Reality, Elderly

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• Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

  Thomas More

  Running, Caring, Roots

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• There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.

  John McCain

  Cutting, Differences, Promise

  "Transcripts World Today Bush Pounds Tax Message Home in Iowa". cnn.com. January 14, 2000.

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• They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Priorities, Challenges

  "Tax cuts likely to be an issue in 2000 elections" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. July 28, 1999.

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• I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Protect, Fund

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• When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

  John McCain

  Running, Hats, Cattle

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• It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

  Noam Chomsky

  Diversity, Liberty, Needs

  Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.376, Penguin Books India

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• I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.

  Hilarie Burton

  Hate, Media, People

  "'Grey's Anatomy': Hilarie Burton Talks Coming Between Callie And Arizona, Lesbian Threesomes And More". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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• In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know - which is why I stay away from social media - I'm terrified of it.

  Hilarie Burton

  Media, Interesting, Needs

  "'Grey's Anatomy's' Hilarie Burton on Lauren and Arizona's Growing Flirtation". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 8, 2013.

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