Be Social Quotes

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.

Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn't really mean it.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.

One of the things I've become immune to is people talking about market cap and social media platforms.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program.

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.