Quotes About Social

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

Really, Channing," remonstrated Alexia, "did you have to eat the man's dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

Man is the being who needs a social life in order to secure mutual well-being. This has brought him much comfort. If man can generate this social life worldwide, it will be much better.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

We shoppers, you bloggers. If money talks, you mumblers. You try it on, then take it off, Then post a pic on your tumblrs.

Borrow from your friends, and when they ain't got any more money, make new friends.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.