Be Social Quotes

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational.

The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.

Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.

I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse?

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.

The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

The good thing about social media is it gives everyone a voice. The bad thing is … it gives everyone a voice.

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.