Be Social Quotes

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.

All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.