Quotes About Social

In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

yesterday) From the terrace of the Flore, I see a woman sitting on the windowsill of the bookstore La Hune; she is holding a glass in one hand, apparently bored; the whole room behind her is filled with men, their backs to me. A cocktail party. May cocktails. A sad, depressing sensation of a seasonal and social stereotype. What comes to my mind is that maman is no longer here and life, stupid life, continues.

I invoke the other's protection, the other's return: let the other appear, take me away, like a mother who comes looking for her child, from this worldly brilliance, from this social infatuation, let the other restore to me the religious intimacy, the gravity of the lover's world. (X once told me that love had protected him against worldliness: coteries, ambitions, advancements, interferences, alliances, secessions, roles, powers: love had made him into a social catastrophe, to his delight.)

l'amour avait fait de lui un déchet social, ce dont il se réjouissait.

Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company.

For this reason, he never used his wealth to alleviate poverty directly and scorned any charity that smacked of social welfare.

By 1784, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut had outlawed slavery or passed laws for its gradual extinction

It never occurred to the Rockefellers to trade up to a more socially prestigious denomination. "Most Americans when they accumulate money climb the golden spires of the nearest Episcopal Church," H. L. Mencken later observed.

may have clung to the Morgan position longer than he wanted to because of its social utility.

Gates had to take account of the many things that Rockefeller had ruled off-limits, such as funding social-welfare agencies.

Junior welcomed this firsthand exposure to urgent social problems.

Rockefeller felt no discomfort at being surrounded by humble people

I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest. As

I reflected that, when dynamic, positive change happens, it is usually because of generational commitment to social transformation.

En las reuniones sociales abundaban las charlas superficiales. La gente llenaba los museos y las salas de conciertos, pero no acudían allí para ver y oír, sino más bien impulsados por una desaforada y narcisista necesidad de ser vistos y oídos.

It's been running for years. On social media. Conspiracy theories. Attempts to undermine the mainstream media.

It seems that in the United States the one thing you can count on is that even during a depression, the rich get richer.

the rest of the company would have preferred it if her husband had been the guest at the Beckhams

I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.

Political atheism is a distinctly modern phenomenon. No premodern atheist doubted that social life required belief in, and worship of, God or gods.

Some] Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.

Their pledge, in fact, came close to later communal farming ideas. The communal farm was not born of social or political idealism. It was based on the necessities of survival; there was no other way.

Children are instinctive about knowing who their friends are. – Dr. Lieberman