Quotes About Social

When women don't want to give out their phone number, they make up a number. This one girl said to me, "My telephone number? 456-78910." "Is that by any chance in the 123 area code?"

There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

The auction proposes what the envy test in fact assumes, that the true measure of the social resources devoted to the life of one person is fixed by asking how important, in fact, that resource is for others. [The auction] insists that the cost, measured in that way, figures in each person's sense of what is rightly his and in each person's judgment of what life he should lead, given that command of justice.

The richest 1 percent of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 80 percent.177

Men with good social circles aren't conscious of the effort they put in to maintain them (although they may be conscious of the value they give).

Don't imagine that our world can't collapse: there is nothing inevitable about progress or peace, and the global and national social and political order we inhabit today is no more immune from catastrophe than the pre–World War II order.

The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight...

Por um mundo onde sejamos socialmente iguais, humanamente diferentes e totalmente livres.

In short, feminism has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of the brave women who fought its first battles. Its future in the new millennium is to face up to the problems of its success, and to see gender as just one possible reason for social and personal conflicts rather than an all-encompassing cause. But if it is going to be capable of making these changes, it will first have to let go of its sacred cows.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Ada Deer's recent memoir, Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice

The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.

Paris'te varl?kl?lar hep bir arada yaÅŸarlar, oturduklar? semtler, blok halinde, sivri ucu Louvres'e kadar uzanan, yar?m ay ÅŸeklindeki kenar? ise Pont d'Auteuil ile Porte des Ternes aras?ndaki aÄŸaçlar?n hizas?nda duran bir kentsel pasta dilimi oluÅŸturur. Ä°ÅŸte. Buras?, kentin lezzetli dilimidir. Gerisi sadece azapla tezektir.

I don't know how to make friends and influence people, I fuck around too much, my reputation's bad.

At this command, to Rose's great dismay, six more hands were offered, and it was evident that she was expected to shake them all.

Everyday Lucybelle looked for a hairline fracture, a place in the social fabric of not just SIPRE, but Chicago, the whole country, where truth might collect like rain, freeze, and force open the gap. This was the story she wanted to tell, the novel she wanted to write, but first she had to find the chink.

Le anime hanno un loro particolar modo d'intendersi, d'entrare in intimità, fino a darsi del tu, mentre le nostre persone sono tuttavia impacciate nel commercio delle parole comuni, nella schiavitù delle esigenze sociali.

Viviamo in un'epoca di autismo sociale in cui la gente non capisce perchè dovrebbe considerare l'impatto delle proprie azioni sulla collettività.

You could hear us? Christiana asked with horror. I'm sure the whole house can hear you, she said dryly. He roars like a lion, and you squeal like a stuck pig.

Há grande diferença social entre um e outro, mas a natureza, assim como a sociedade a corrige, também às vezes corrige a sociedade.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

If learning were purely or even predominantly cognitive, then computers would be adequate and there would be no point in gathering people together in a room. But affects are social, "are there first, before we are" (65). The affective environment influences the nature of cognition: "affects may, at least in some instances, find thoughts that suit them, not the other way around" (7).

If I fall down the stairs," she added in a low dry voice, "and end up sprawled at the bottom in front of all those swells, I'm going to pretend that I'm dead. You tell someone to haul me off to the nearest boardinghouse, then go have your supper.

addiction is a learned relationship between the timing and pattern of the exposure to substances or other potentially addictive experiences and a person's predispositions, cultural and physical environment, and social and emotional needs.