Quotes About Social

It is a question of social realism, of becoming aware of an already given situation, to start from it, and to modify it.

Exploring the dynamic between tradition and change when it came to the role of women as powerful and influential figures is an essential part of understanding the evolving nature of the Roman world. This is complicated by the fact that the Romans to a large extent did not themselves necessarily recognize how the political and social role of women was changing.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

Gossip's not amusement, Uncle Zeke.' Arabella was grave. 'It's an essential part of social life.' 'Why?' 'It keeps up the moral values of a community by picking out the deviants and criticising their behaviour.

No es casual que dos valores constantes del discurso populista sean, de un lado, la estimulación del resentimiento social, del otro, la promesa de reparación o revancha.

Al final, los intereses estratégicos de la cohesión social y de la ganancia son convergentes. Ambas requieren una economía de mercado pujante y un Estado fuerte.

Más allá de sus diferencias políticas con la República restaurada, el Porfiriato puede leerse como su estricta continuación, y la Revolución mexicana como una reimplantación institucional, social y política del Porfiriato. "Porfirismo colectivo"

Everybody seems to have money, but the government is always broke. Deficit spending--and always the vital social services for which the government has to spend money. The most vital one, of course, is buying votes to keep the government in power. And it gets harder for the government to get anything done.

Puedes estar seguro, Alfredo, que si hay una cosa en nuestra época que se revela como un decreto de Dios, es que las masas han de levantarse y ocupar el puesto superior las clases inferiores.

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Miss Ponsonby, his old governess, had once adjured him: When people say "How are you?" the correct answer is "How are YOU?" If you tell them how you are, you show yourself a person of inferior breeding…

Plant the seeds of hope so they can grow. Everything seems pretty messed up. Be patient with yourself." "Let this time in your life, help heal one another. We can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe. Be a voice of compassion.

On Facebook, I want to change my name to Nobody so when someone posts something really stupid, I can like their post and it will say... Nobody likes this.

I have.... "Asshole Proximity Disorder

He would never swing the thurible before the tabernacle as priest. His destiny was to be elusive of social or religious orders. The wisdom of the priest's appeal did not touch him to the quick. He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world.

At age nineteen I did not want to accept the possibility that a man's murder could be treated with the social significance of a hangnail that had been snipped off someone's finger.

There is no equal to poor white trash when they get their hands on a Bible.

When a drunk gets eighty-sixed out of a bar, he's not supposed to buy drinks for the people still inside.

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

It was a violent breakthrough against an older social structure.

It lies not only in recognizing that not all human influences are necessarily coercive and exploitative, that not all transactions among persons are mechanical, impersonal, ephemeral.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.