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Quotes About Social

I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.
~ Ron Paul
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
~ Colin Ward
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.
~ Pope Francis
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
~ John Maynard Keynes
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.
~ John Adams
The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors
~ Julia Quinn
...heaven for climate, and hell for society.
~ Mark Twain
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin
~ Albert Einstein
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
~ Jonathan Haidt
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.
~ Thorstein Veblen
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
~ Joe Biden
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
~ Karl Marx
Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.
~ Duane Elgin
True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.
~ Tariq Ramadan
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
~ Jerry Garcia
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
~ Franz von Papen
I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.
~ Jan Morris
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
~ Jane Addams
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.
~ Maria Montessori
In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.
~ Satish Kumar