Quotes About Social

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

The individual is increasingly deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life, and instead is ruled, fed, clothed and educated as a social unit, accommodated in the appropriate housing unit, and amused in accordance with the standards that give pleasure and satisfaction to the masses.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

building prisons is our number one social program for young men

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

Many of our fears are based on the workings of the ego, the part of us that's focused on getting recognition and protecting us from social ostracism. In the Zone of Genius, your ego is unnecessary; living there is its own reward. In the Zone of Genius, you cease to care about recognition or ostracism. Once you make a commitment to inhabiting your full potential, your ego is suddenly faced with extinction.

Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

Your mother is probably right," Dad said. "Social services frowns on drunk ten-year-ols. Besides, when I dropped my drumsticks and puked onstage, it was punk. If you drop your bow and smell like a brewery, it will look gauche. You classical-music people are so snobby that way.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

He immediately began to de-privatize. He revoked the licences to the unpopular Imperial Continental Gas Association and fashioned it into a company owned by the municipality. The same happened with the water pipeline over the dunes and the Amsterdamse Omnibus Maatschappij (Amsterdam Omnibus Company), which had run a number of horse-drawn trams in the city since 1875. In doing all this, Treub instigated an evolutionary process that was to give a lasting social basis to city policy. From

If you're thinking they were acting terribly nonchalant about discovering a stranger behind the living room couch, you've never been to a collegiate keg party.

Gatekeeper, the Facebook feature toggling service.

every Facebook user was part of a massive load testing program, which

We have even managed to turn into a Twitter trending topic. All

When in doubt about a joke, drop it. Its easier to write a new joke than it is to get new friends.

students in jeans and duffel coats to people in evening wear. Hot dog stands made no class distinctions

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.

Forty percent of our social interactions happen with 5 other people, and 60 percent with only 15 others. It's hard to have a sustained conversation with more than 4 people. It's hard for an intensely committed group to be much more than 12 in number. And somewhere around 150 is a typical upper size for a close-knit community.

But people with good manners never, ever do it in public, or when company is over. Especially when that company is an evil little worm.

The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.

The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability to form social groups and collectively take advantage of economies of scale.

The strengths of social interaction and the flows of information exchange are greatest between terminal units (that is, between individuals) and systematically decrease up the hierarchy of group structures from families and other groups to increasingly larger clusters, leading to superlinear scaling, increasing returns, and an accelerating pace of life.

Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to inspire and test hypotheses, and these have proven to give insight into social structure and dynamics. Many involve surveys and responses to various questionnaires and are subject to limitations that depend on the role of the experimental teams who have to interact with the subjects.