| "In our quest to become more social, and intelligent, Are we, human kind becoming socially inept due to our own technology. Is our technology making the world smaller?
or driving us from social interaction?" »Larry Levesque |
| "It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good." »Pope Pius XI |
| "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell |
| "When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too." »Bayard Rustin |
| "Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich." »Eva Pern |
| "The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't." »Ernest Rutherford |
| "The social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place." »Claude T Bissell |
| "Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action." »William Bolitho |
| "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." »Charles Horton Cooley |
| "All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one." »Tom Hanks |
| "In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary." »Kathleen Norris |
| "In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress." »Charles W. Eliot |
| "America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose." »Herbert Hoover |
| "BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company." »Anonymous |
| "Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts." »Clare Booth Luce |
| "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." »Thomas Sowell |
| "The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform." »George Steiner |
| "Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." »Lillian Eichler Watson |
| "It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin." »Quentin Crisp |
| "In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart." »Henry Clay |
| "Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity." »Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. |
| "Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues." »Archibald Cox |
| "Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'." »B. J. Gupta |
| "The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man." »Erich Fromm |
| "The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept." »John W. Gardner |
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