Quotes About Social

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Political correctness is a loaded gun that the individual holds to their own head. Where laws can't stomp on freedom of speech, automatons rule other automatons via political correctness and social acceptance.

The spirit of the Catholic Church's modern social teachings was never rendered so forcefully as in those five minutes of On the Waterfront

Corridan rarely elaborated in detail on his church's social teachings. His approach was grounded in part in a Catholic understanding of natural law as universally operative and not dependent for its validation on the claims of any particular theological tradition.

he argued that a "very large part of the rancor of political and social strife" springs from the fact that different classes or sections "are so cut off from each other that neither appreciates the other's passions, prejudices, and, indeed, point of view.

Washington will remain our political and New York our commercial capital," Murat Halstead predicted in 1878, but cosmopolitan Cincinnati would become "the social center and musical metropolis of America.

He was learning, Sewall said, what it meant to be an American, the idea that "no man is superior, unless it was by merit, and no man is inferior, unless by his demerit." The profound pleasure Theodore had discovered in a different kind of social life would lead to a reassessment of his future prospects.

Observing this widespread failure to rectify conditions, Roosevelt recalled, "I became more set than ever in my distrust of those men, whether business men or lawyers, judges, legislators, or executive officers, who seek to make of the Constitution a fetish for the prevention of the work of social reform.

It was this case," Roosevelt later said, "which first waked me to . . . the fact that the courts were not necessarily the best judges of what should be done to better social and industrial conditions.

There's something hypnotic about the word tea.

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice.

Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings – people will stand there for hours on end, with their ear-drums splitting – why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while other people work.

She did not grudge him his entertainment; being old enough to know that even the most crashing social bricks make but a small ripple in the ocean of time, which quickly dies away.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it.

Biologically, there is one human race. Race applied to human beings is a political division: it is a system of governing people that classifies them into a social hierarchy based on invented biological demarcations.

Thinking on this issue tends to fall into two camps: either race is a social category that has nothing to do with the biological causes of disease, or race is a biological category that causes differences in disease. Both approaches fail to grasp the way in which race as a social grouping can affect health—because of different life experiences based on race, not because of race-based genetic difference.

The fighting over Norplant assumed that Black women's reproduction is a proper arena for social regulation.

So let me be clear: race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people's health.

After surveying a number of these sterilization bills, Julius Paul observe in 1968, "The surgeon's knife (sterilization) still seems to have the same magical quality in the minds of some people for 'saving' America from its shame, squalor, and various miseries of human or social instigation (especially poverty) as it did over sixty years ago.

Race is not a biological category that is politically charged. It is a political category that has been disguised as a biological one.

Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.