Quotes About Social

The way we define a social problem will affect the way we conceive of its solution. If we have an incomplete definition of a problem, then we will envision a limited solution. If the real problem is larger than our restricted definition, then our solution will be insufficient.

Well, I want you all to be polite,' said Mother firmly, adding, 'and you're not to mention owls, Larry. She might think we're peculiar.' 'We are,' concluded Larry with feeling.

Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

Entrepreneurs, in accepting risk, achieve security for all. In embracing change, they ensure social and economic stability.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy.

Being popular is important. Otherwise, people might not like you.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.