Quotes About Social

The anxieties of all of us, our worries, vexations, bothers, troubles, uneasy apprehensions and strenuous efforts are due, in perhaps the large majority of instances, to what other people will say;

Was für ein Neuling ist doch der, welcher wähnt, Geist und Verstand zu zeigen wäre ein Mittel, sich in der Gesellschaft beliebt zu machen! Vielmehr erregen sie, bei der unberechenbar überwiegenden Mehrzah, einen Haß und Groll.

There cannot be a more degrading system of social organisation than the caste system,' said Ambedkar. 'It is the system that deadens, paralyses and cripples the people from helpful activity.'19

in Delhi there was no war other than the usual one – the war of the rich against the poor.

You do not imagine that a mere matter of etiquette could foil you. But the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific—matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded.

You felt the need to say hello. Indeed, it seemed impolite not to do so.

I couldn't help but think, however, that my social status played a role in all this.

People may hate being embarrassed and strive not to show it when they are, but embarrassment serves an important good.

And if blushing serves to heighten such sensitivity, this may be to one's ultimate advantage.

Embarrassment causes blushing, and blushing causes embarrassment—so what makes the cycle stop?

By December of 1998, her blushing had become intolerable

People may hate being embarrassed and strive not to show it when they are, but embarrassment serves an important good. For, unlike sadness or anger or even love, it is fundamentally a moral emotion

Once again, the salient risk factors seem to be social rather than physical.

the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific—matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded. In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones.

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...

Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women.

Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

As far as I'm concerned, baldness is the male breast cancer, only much worse because almost everyone gets it. True, it's not life-threatening. Just social-life threatening. But in New York City, there is no difference.

Granted, many of them were indistinguishable blobs in my alcoholic smear of a social life, but I knew how the mind lulled you into a state of perilous complacency when all you had was a personality and a disassociated voice. Meeting

The smallest incidents of our social life contain all the moral and political values of society, all its structures of domination and power, all its mechanisms of oppression.

The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.

They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They're concerned only with people. They don't ask: 'Is this true?' They ask: 'Is this what others think is true?' Not to judge, but to repeat. Not to do, but to give the impression of doing. Not creation, but show. Not ability, but friendship. Not merit, but pull.

Ova drustvena revolucija se manifestira kroz vrlo razlicite aspekte, najprije ogromna seljacka buna, siroki bazni pokret koji ima svoje korijene u dugoj historiji, obiljezenoj ne samo mrznjom nego i dubokim zaziranjem seljastva prema gradu, vanjskom svijetu i prema svakom obliku mijesanja u drzavno vlasnistvo.

They were inculcated with a firm sense of noblesse oblige, as with a respect for hierarchy; the Slonim girls knew well how to decode a social situation, and what they could rightfully expect from one. In part these seemed to be survival tactics for living in an uncertain time.