Quotes About Social

When we revere our human form we respect other human beings, who are so similar to us, for their innate worth. This is the starting place for developing a social conscience.

The science is clear. Social disconnection stimulates our brain's pain pathways and our stress response systems, making it more likely we'll seek out unhealthy sources of dopamine.

The impulse to form group identities and favor in-group members has a neurological basis. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), scientists have scanned people's brains while conducting experiments similar to the one just described. Their findings, as one writer puts it, suggest that: "group identification is both innate and almost immediate.

Anyway, they went and built this silly housing project, with us living right across the street from it. Some of the children from the housing project got into trouble. You can't just take people who don't have anything, don't know what they're doing, pack them in a bunch of buildings, and expect it's going to all work out somehow. - Sadie

A concept Fred likely learned in his graduate studies in child development, sublimation is the process by which socially unacceptable behaviors are channeled—sublimated—into more socially acceptable ways.

Vinnie used to say that I had social problems that teleported in like a cow into a nail salon. You'll be sailing along, tap dancing the small-talk boogie, and BOOM, that cow will show up, thrash around, and destroy everything in its path, and then leave the charming Connor to clean up the mess. Jillian

Emmy had turned so red that the woman laughed and said, "Well, I guess it's not blusher!

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

Quando o serviço é obrigatório para todos, quando todos os cidadãos são soldados, ou foram, todas as forças sociais se acham dispostos de maneira a proteger o poder, ou até mesmo sua ausência, como se viu na França.

One of the best ways to create and sustain social motivation is to surround yourself with people who will encourage and support and challenge you in your endeavors. Not only did the Berlin violin students spend most of their time with other music students, but they also tended to date music students or at least others who would appreciate their passion for music and understand their need to prioritize their practice.

The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged, on pain of death, to undergo transformations that will give it a new lease on life. Therefore, this period of crisis is a historical moment of danger and suspense during which the crucial decisions and transformations are made, which will determine the future development of the system if any and its new social, economic, and political basis.

Cómo no lo había conocido antes?, le pregunté, y él contestó con la humildad del que dice la verdad: porque eras una burguesita de lo más chinche

motherhood is not a job at all. It is a full-time, all-consuming, life-subsuming career with no pay, no stock options, no social security, and lots of lip service with little actual respect (just watch the difference in people's reactions to you when you tell them you are a project manager instead of a mother).

The tolerance for subaltern violence stands in inverse relation to the absoluteness of capitalist dominance and the consequent suffusion of a social formation with violence – the American allergy, in other words, is a pathology.

The fact that obesity in both Europe and America is chiefly a class-specific phenomenon—obese people disproportionately inhabit the lower rungs of the social scale on both sides of the Atlantic—appears hardly a matter for reflection and pales in comparison to the ubiquitous mention of the sole culprit: the "Americanization" of European life.

Indeed, if one extends the "social" dimension to include the successful integration of immigrants, surely America's democracy would emerge much less defective than the alleged models of Western Europe.

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men's control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil's stranglehold will be easily broken.

The purpose of the, "Illuminati," is to divide the non-Jews through political, economic, social, and religious means. The plan is for the opposing sides of the goyim (non-Jews) to be armed whilst incidents are to be provided in order for them to: fight amongst themselves; destroy national governments; destroy religious institutions; and eventually destroy each other.

Progressives, it's true, admirably supported suffrage, ended child labor, and enacted other necessary reforms, but it's also undeniable that many embraced eugenics as a potential cure-all for a host of social ills.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

For while a weapons capability is clearly required in our unstable and aggressive world, the scale of defence spending in countries both under threat and peaceable results in the massive diversion of resources from crucial social and development needs, which in itself feeds instability.

Social networks are indeed politically segregated—surveys find Democrats are more likely to know more Democrats and Republicans more likely to know more Republicans—but it is difficult to know how much is from geography (red or blue states, regions, neighborhoods, and workplaces) and the extent to which polarized social networks cause, or are the product of, polarization in attitudes.