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Quotes About Social

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.
~ Elise M. Boulding
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.
~ Erich Fromm
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
~ John Adams
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.
~ Karl Mannheim
To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
~ Paul Farmer
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
~ John Dewey
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
~ William Graham Sumner
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.
~ Vanna Bonta
All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.
~ Mario Bunge
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.
~ Bruce Springsteen
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
~ Johann Most
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
~ B.R. Ambedkar
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
~ Josiah Strong
For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.
~ Jordan Peele
In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
~ Robert Bly
In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.
~ Virginia Graham
You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.
~ Colin Farrell
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
~ David Korten