Quotes About Social

successful people, like Morgan and Rockefeller, just had a better grasp of social tendencies than unsuccessful people

We do not (on Holmes's reasoning) permit the free expression of ideas because some individual may have the right one. No individual alone can have the right one. We permit free expression because we need the resources of the whole group to get us the ideas we need. Thinking is a social activity. I tolerate your thought because it is part of my thought—even when my thought defines itself in opposition to yours.

Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, Darling, love me! I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.

Aún tenía que descubrir que el dinero no sirve para comprar el refinamiento, que la posición social no siempre es sinónimo de nobleza y que la buena educación se nota aunque la persona tenga que hacer frente a carencias

But remember, dear, that it is both bad taste and bad economy for poor people to try to ape the rich.

if a white man kills a black, he cannot be tried for his life for the murder. . . . If a negro strikes a white man, he is punished with the loss of his hand and, if he should draw blood, with death.

These social pressures took their toll on his marriage

As always, Hamilton cited constitutional grounds for his program, invoking the clause that gave Congress authority to "provide for the common defence and general welfare."59 Owing in part to Hamilton's generous construction of this clause, it was to acquire enormous significance, allowing the government to enact programs to advance social welfare.

John never aspired to popularity at the school.

while he was always surrounded by people, Rockefeller had few, if any, real friends and was isolated by his wealth.

Avoid any enclosed space where more than three people are wearing turtlenecks.

Tacitus explains it thus: Cuncta fessa. Which means 'the whole world is tired.' Weariness in the face of political and social insecurity is what led to Rome losing its rights and freedoms. Fear induces a hunger for authoritarianism in people. Fear is a really bad adviser.

Los movimientos socialmente anómalos dejan fisuras en el entramado convencional por donde se escapan los espíritus más libres

Since women are not inferior, they had to be bombarded with a massive literature of religious, social, biological and, more recently, psychological ideology to explain, insist, that women are secondary to men. And to make women believe that they are inferior what better subject for this literature of religious teaching, cautionary folk tales, jokes and customs, than the female body?

Social reform held a sacred quality for the women involved; it equaled practical Christianity, the living out of the ethics of Jesus. Most reformers saw Christianity as the foundation of, not an impediment to, their work. Some also felt led to critique the church so that its message and its practice would be brought more closely together.

Car, si je considérais l'homme surtout en termes psychologiques, Smith l'évaluait en termes sociaux et Terron en termes mythiques. Ce qui provoquait en moi une quête irritée de certitude, une insécurité qui me mettait nettement mal à l'aise.

When I was a child grown-ups often told me to smile, which I found presumptuous of them. People still tell me that sometimes, mostly idiots at parties.

The Japanese, she argues, are unusually sensitive to the opinion of others. Shame comes from not living up to social obligations. You can feel guilty about a crime that goes unnoticed. Shame depends on the observation of others.

You're getting a sort of vaccination this year. If you don't know it now, you'll find it out some day. But it's going to keep you from dying of a terrible disease. Lucinda was filled with amazement… What is the disease, Uncle Earle? she asked solemnly. Snobbishness-priggishness-the Social Register. I don't care a damn what you call it, Snoodie, as long as you get your antitoxin before the disease gets you.

Many thinkers worry over the progressive bureaucratization of the world and the social threat of its terror. Yet they forget that these very bureaucrats are themselves terrorized, and that they are terrorized by their desks. Once plunked down behind one, a man will never learn to tear himself free.

Observing the behavior of individual fowl in a henhouse, we note that birds lower in rank are pecked by, and give way to, birds of higher rank. In an ideal case, there exists a linear order of rank with a top hen who pecks all the others. Those in the middle ranks peck those below them but respect all the hens above them. At the bottom there is a drudge who has to take it from everyone. (Adolf Remane, Vertebrates and Their Ways)

I still considered the world's religions to be mere intellectual ruins, maintained at enormous economic and social cost, but I now understood that important psychological truths could be found in the rubble.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.