Quotes About Social

I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it.

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

I just don't give off a great first impression.

People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.

Inaction will always have a disproportionate impact on those who are the most disadvantaged.

The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.

It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

In the social sciences, "survivorship bias" is the common mistake of noting only those things that made it through some selection process while overlooking those that didn't.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

Our mistake has been to categorize things as art by considering certain phases of the process of creation. But logically this can make all man-made objects art. It is more useful to categorize art by what has become its social function. It functions as property.

This is not a military war in the old sense. It is not even a political war. What we're facing here is a social war, a class war. As long as we don't destroy the mandarin class, abolish excessive tenancy rates and do fail to give every farmer his own plot of land, this country'll go Communist as soon as we turn our backs.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

a white girl walking with a black girl is always seen as black-man-friendly

Bibi replied, gender's a social construction, most of us are born male or female but the concepts of masculinity and femininity are society's inventions, none of it is innate, are you following? no, not really

people have to share everything they do these days, from meals, to nights out, to selfies of themselves half naked in a mirror

creating "social value" is not merely an abstraction. Companies may create it by using their managerial imagination or by forging strategic alliances. It is just about setting out to it, integrating it into corporate priorities and policies and maintaining absolute consistency between words and actions.