Quotes About Social

The country is polarized. And I think part of it - it is not just social media. We get our facts from different places. People self-select with so many different cable channels and so many sources. I think that is a huge problem.

South Africa and Brazil are very similar. We have the same social problems, same issues and same growing economies.

I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in the United States, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States.

I stand for the education of the South African youth, for equality and representation, as Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to these important social causes.

A 'township' in the U.S. is a small area. In South Africa it's a place designated for non-white people during the apartheid.

I look at South Africa and look around Europe and ask: are those places better to be black than the U.K.? I don't think so. It doesn't mean everything is perfect.

Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?

Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.

In 'Palaces for the People,' Eric Klinenberg offers a new perspective on what people and places have to do with each other, by looking at the social side of our physical spaces.

The infusion of technology and social marketing to bar spaces is a big opportunity.

Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.

Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected.

In Spain, if you don't follow football, you're dead. You don't have conversation.

You can now interact with Sheriff Derrick Decker on Facebook. Just look up Derrick Decker!

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.

Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the "normal," particularly with "bell curve" methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud.