Quotes About Social

It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

the left stopped thinking several decades ago about ambitious social policies that might help remedy the underlying conditions of the poor. It was easier to talk about respect and dignity than to come up with potentially costly plans that would concretely reduce inequality.

The problem with this understanding of autonomy is that shared values serve the important function of making social life possible.

The only part of the world where tribalism was fully superseded by more voluntary and individualistic forms of social relationship was Europe, where Christianity played a decisive role in undermining kinship as a basis for social cohesion.

Many believed that the Mafia, clientelism, and corruption represented traditional social practices that would gradually erode as the country modernized economically.

economic grievances become much more acute when they are attached to feelings of indignity and disrespect.

Europe's exhausted elites were ready to concede both liberal democracy and redistributive welfare states to ensure social peace.

Latin America has been characterized by a "birth defect" of inequality from which it has not yet recovered.

National identity is frequently formed in deliberate opposition to other groups and therefore serves to perpetuate conflict even as it strengthens internal social cohesion. National cohesion may express itself as external aggression. Human beings cooperate in order to compete, and compete to cooperate.

The ability to compare, and to evaluate, other human beings was the fountainhead of human unhappiness...

The repeated demand for "justice," incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.

Some people today argue that religion is primarily a source of violence, conflict, and social discord.25 Historically, however, religion has played the opposite role: it is a source of social cohesion that permits human beings to cooperate far more widely and securely than they would if they were the simple rational and self-interested agents posited by the economists.

Social media and the internet have facilitated the emergence of self-contained communities, walled off not by physical barriers but by belief in shared identity.

La conexión entre ingreso y dignidad también sugiere por qué algo parecido a una renta universal garantizada, como solución a la pérdida de empleos por culpa de la automatización, no conseguirá la paz social ni hacer felices a quienes la reciban.

Some people today argue that religion is primarily a source of violence, conflict, and social discord. Historically, however, religion has played the opposite role: it is a source of social cohesion that permits human beings to cooperate far more widely and securely than they would if they were the simple rational and self-interested agents posited by the economists.

Human beings are rule-following animals by nature; they are born to conform to the social norms they see around them, and they entrench those rules with often transcendent meaning and value. When the surrounding environment changes and new challenges arise, there is often a disjunction between existing institutions and present needs. Those institutions are supported by legions of entrenched stakeholders who oppose any fundamental change.

Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

El clasismo es una forma de violencia muy cabrona aquí en México. Es más: la misma POBREZA es una forma de violencia que los ricos imponen a los marginados de muchas formas [...]

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

the idea of a supra-human Chief Justice, totally 'objective', may be a necessary political and social myth but it is an illusion for all that.

We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.

The last thing I crave is to be exposed to the sort of grandstanding preachers that so many evangelical churches seem to breed with the ubiquity of maggots appearing in road kill. The last thing I want is a new and improved "worship experience." The last thing I want is for the service to be socially and politically relevant

man is essentially a social being. We should not come into existence unless other humans produced us, or stay in existence unless they maintained us in it.

The social location of the church meeting expresses and influences the character of the church.221