Quotes About Social

Revolutios don't occur among people who are thinking in the same old way. Can't changed social or economic conditions produce a revolution? Surely you don't mean that. People produce revolutions, not conditions.

Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins has written: "The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.

If my life was an action movie, my boss would be the spy trying to sabotage my mission, and my mission would be going on Facebook.

Long time ago I used to have a life, until someone told me to create a Facebook account.

I made my Facebook name "Benefits," so when you add me now it says "you're friends with benefits."

Actions speak louder than words. Businesses must act. Once the door to social consciousness is opened, bring the spirit of your company through it to affect change.

A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

The old complex life, at once economic and social, was fairly coherent and self-sustaining because each community was focused upon its own local countryside and upon its own people, their needs, and their work. That life is now almost entirely gone. It has been replaced by the dispersed lives of dispersed individuals, commuting and consuming, scattering in every direction every morning, returning at night only to their screens and carryout meals.

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Actors create and maintain systems, and if they fail to do so, the systems in question cease to exist. The stability of systems is a frequently precarious achievement in the face of potentially hostile forces, both social and natural.

When the social groups involved in designing and using technology decide that a problem is solved, they stabilize the technology. The result is closure. Closure and stabilization, however, are not isolated events; they occur repeatedly during technological development. To

Explanations of the stability of technologies must take account of the social relations of work as

How inestimably important in its moral results—and therefore how praiseworthy in itself—is the act of eating and drinking! The social virtues center in the stomach. A man who is not a better husband, father, and brother after dinner than before is, digestively speaking, an incurably vicious man.

History in the large is the conflict of minorities; the majority applauds the victor and supplies the human material of social experiment.

Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life." (Will Durant, Story of Civilization, pg 1, vol. 1)

Government itself, which is the most unnatural and necessary of social mechanisms, has usually required the support of piety and the priest, as clever heretics like Napoleon and Mussolini soon discovered; and hence "a tendency to theocracy is incidental to all constitutions.