Quotes About Social

Thus we see that the diffusion of innovations is a social process, even more than a technical matter.

The degree of relative advantage may be measured in economic terms, but social prestige, convenience, and satisfaction are also important factors.

a great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain

Rosalind: Cecelia, darling, you don't know what a trial it is to be like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. If I laugh hard from a front row in the theatre, the comedian plays to me for the rest of the evening. If I drop my voice, my eyes, my handkerchief at a dance, my partner calls me up on the phone every day for a week.

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

How do you do, Captain," she said, unfastening her eyes from his with difficulty, as though they had become entangled.

He differed from the healthy type that was essentially middle class—he never seemed to perspire. Some people couldn't be familiar with a chauffeur without having it returned;

The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

One thing's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

A very confused, very juvenile moment of awkward backings and bumpings followed, and everyone found himself talking to the person he least desired to. Isabella manoeuvred herself and Froggy Parker, freshman at Harvard, with whom she had once played hop-scotch, to a seat on the stairs. A humorous reference to the past was all she needed. The things Isabelle could do socially with one idea were remarkable.

social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong. Having

At the reception, she had introduced a man to his own wife. Twice.

The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.

to demand collective sacrifice you must offer a social contract that benefits everyone." But, it continued, "today's crisis is laying bare how far many rich societies fall short of this ideal." It declared a need for "radical reforms—reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades.

When you teleconference, you are spending social capital rather than building it.

se podía incluir a Rothschild en la misma categoría de Richelieu y Robespierre como uno de los «tres terroríficos nombres que conjuran la gradual aniquilación de la vieja aristocracia». Richelieu había destruido su poder; Robespierre había decapitado sus restos decadentes, y ahora Rothschild proporcionaba a Europa una nueva élite social

The search for the truth — whether the subjective truth of one's own convictions, the objective truth of reality or the social truth of money or power — always brings with it, if the searcher in question deserves the prize, the ultimate knowledge that the truth does not exist.

O mal verdadeiro, o único mal, são as convenções e as ficções sociais, que se sobrepõem às realidades naturais, tudo, desde a família ao dinheiro, desde a religião ao Estado.

Desde el punto de vista ético, se considera que toda fuente de riqueza es social y por tanto implica responsabilidades sociales en quienes se benefician de ella, tanto más cuanto más provecho obtengan.

Lo que se agazapa en toda esa obsesión sobre la «inmoralidad» sexual no es ni más ni menos que uno de los más viejos temores sociales del hombre: el miedo al placer.

la mafia […] mostra, allo stato puro, la natura dei rapporti sociali

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.