Quotes About Social

As a poor person and someone who now writes extensively about social and economic justice, I've often noticed a lack of a focus on poverty appearing in news cycles or in debates among White House contenders.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Animals in pens have lots of time to develop theories, said the Cow, I've heard more than one clever creature draw a connection between the rise of tiktokism and the erosion of traditional Animal labour. We weren't beasts of burden, but we were good reliable labourers. If we were made redundant in the workforce, it was only a matter of time before we'd be socially redundant too.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

In fact, for both men and women—and this finding struck me as highly significant—the most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.

The main purpose of laughter is to bind people together; it's a social sound that's meant to be heard by others, to create engagement. We're far more likely to laugh when we're with other people, and when we're with friends rather than with strangers.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must do something in order to fit into a social situation.

Studies of what's called the "dinner party problem" show that once a group includes five people, it usually splits into two or more conversations.

the most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference. Learning about this research made a difference in my attitude toward Jamie. I love him with all my heart

Studies show that if you have five or more friends with whom to discuss an important matter, you're far more likely to describe yourself as "very happy.

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.

L'aristocratie nouvelle, la bourgeoisie, ne valait pas l'ancienne, la noblesse. Il soutenait cela ; et les démocrates approuvaient, — comme s'il avait fait partie de l'une et qu'ils eussent fréquenté l'autre.

that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.

siempre hay algún deseo que arrastra, pero alguna conveniencia social que retiene.

Su voluntad, como el velo de su sombrero sujeto por un cordón, palpita a todos los vientos; siempre hay algún deseo que arrastra y alguna conveniencia social que refrena.

I hope you realize that you really hit it off with the ladies? You must cultivate that. It could take you far.

They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at first a feeling of embarrassment prevented them from speaking to her. At last, however, the Comtesse, more of an adept than the rest in social duplicity, asked her: 'Did you enjoy the christening?

As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain a social necessity. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

Separation is itself an integral part of the unity of this world, of a global social practice split into reality and image. The social practice confronted by an autonomous spectacle is at the same time the real totality which contains that spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point that the spectacle seems to be its goal.

the spectacle is an affirmation of appearances and an identification of all human social life with appearances. But a critique that grasps the spectacle's essential character reveals it to be a visible negation of life — a negation that has taken on a visible form.

On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

Ma la merce abbondante sta a dire la rottura assoluta di uno sviluppo organico dei bisogni sociali. La sua accumulazione meccanica libera un artificiale illimitato, di fronte al quale il DESIDERIO VIVENTE resta disarmato.