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Quotes About Social

We tend to become social core groups, whatever our similar interest and background where we came through. It tends to be a filter through which people see themselves. It can be all different ethnicities. They can see themselves as San Franciscans, or Warriors fans. You want to build a tribe of viral advocates for that team.
~ Peter Guber
I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates.
~ Eliot Spitzer
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.
~ Robert Kennedy
Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
~ Fidel Castro
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
~ Frances O'Grady
I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ some pinknik social engineers in Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with it.
~ George Wallace
The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do. She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.
~ Rachel Hauck
It couldn't have worked out better, except of course, for poor Allie who was stuck at the far end of the table across from my brother. I was afraid if she spent too much time with him she might re-evaluate her friendship with me.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
And you look like you're going to a bar mitzvah at the Ponderosa.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you ' really kind of cool you know.
~ Rachel Stevens
Please, we're in high school. Hook up and move on.
~ Rachel Vail
But the thing that's wrong with Danny is more like, he wants friends but doesn't know how to navigate that, and he doesn't handle his own feelings particularly well, and so everybody finds him annoying.
~ Rachel Vail
We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
~ Radha Mitchell
in a system where relationships are the currency of exchange.
~ Raghuram G. Rajan
In his view, an Indian peasant and an English monarch were equal as human beings. For Marx and Anderson, on the other hand, some races are superior, others inferior
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Thus the Gurus were all from the 'high' Khatri caste of traders and administrators but within that caste from middle-level clans or sub-castes.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Caste taboos had been broken, and a measure of equality introduced. But they had also become a distinct community, which for writing used a new script called
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
~ Ralph Ellison
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are four varnas, with the former 'Untouchables' constituting a fifth (and lowest) strata. Into these varnas fit the 3,000 and more jatis, each challenging those, in the same region, that are ranked above it, and being in turn challenged by those below.
~ Ramachandra Guha