Quotes About Social

Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time: psychological disorder, social disorder, metaphysical disorder, or physical disorder, constantly happening. If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.

The only lesson I got pounded into me was about man's limitless capacity for vice - that and the fact that social distinctions vanish in a concentration camp. I once believed that man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion.

There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization.

To survive, you must look good or talk even better

Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Not me. I'm happy in the middle. That's where the crowd is. And where there's a crowd, there's usually a party.

No matter how dispassionate or large a vision of the world a woman formulates, whenever it includes her own experience and emotion, the telescope's turned back on her. Because emotion's just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as discipline, as form. Dear Dick, I want to make the world more interesting than my problems. Therefore, I have to make my problems social.

Linda waited, knowing Knox would fill the silence. On average, men tended to interrupt a woman after eight seconds. If a woman didn't talk, most men couldn't last four seconds, according to social scientists with government funding and a stopwatch.

Climbing gyms came to be seen as a good place to hang out and get fit in an encouraging environment.

METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.

The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Las adicciones —ya sean al azúcar, a la cocaína, al trabajo o al sexo— están ligadas al dolor emocional y a la sensación de vacío, y vienen de la falta de vínculos sociales y de una autoestima baja.

These women are a little afraid of Mrs. Murphy, I can see. Over the course of dinner I notice that she can be snappish and short-tempered, and she likes to be the boss. When one of them expresses an opinion she disagrees with, she looks around at the group and gathers allies for her position. But she is nothing but kind to me.

Toute démarche qui tend à nous faire mieux accepter les contraintes sociales est dangereuse, et ne peut en aucun cas être qualifiée de "libératrice". C'est pourquoi la "revalorisation du corps des femmes", sans autre précision, est un projet extrêmement ambigu.

Le] couple mère-enfant ne désigne pas une association d'individus mais essentiellement un système de rôles et d'obligations : une formation sociale. De surcroît cette formation sociale est le résultat empirique - en termes d'associations d'individus physiques - d'une structure d'exploitation : le système politique patriarcal.

Toute connaissance est le produit d'une situation historique, qu'elle le sache ou non. Mais qu'elle le sache ou non fait une grande différence ; si elle ne le sait pas, si elle se prétend "neutre", elle nie l'histoire qu'elle prétend expliquer, elle est idéologie et non connaissance. Toute connaissance qui ne reconnaît pas, qui ne prend pas pour prémisse l'oppression sociale, la nie, et en conséquence la sert objectivement.

Le sexe est simplement un marqueur de la division sociale [hiérarchique de genre] ; il sert à reconnaître et identifier les dominants des dominé[e]s

Theology is a discipline that is at once oriented to the transcendent and thoroughly located in a particular time and place. It arises out of personal needs and social crises but looks beyond them to truth.

Mine is an unusual case, although the condition is not so rare as the average person would think. It is more a problem of social taboos and the desire not to speak of the subject, because it deals with the great "hush-hush," namely, Sex.

Here is where it becomes clear that this kind of fine-grained genetic history is the flip side of the family-history coin. Although genealogy is not widely valued in academia, it meshes perfectly with, and helps explain, social history. These small stories about individual lives reveal the way that individual choices shape the biology and the history of whole populations.

No political system or economic order can ever be regarded as the full, or even as an adequate, realization of justice. All human social structures and centers of power are denied ultimate significance. Every human attempt to create justice, when measured against the perfect justice of God's coming kingdom, is inescapably partial and limited.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

The anarchist movement is filled with people who are less interested in overthrowing the existing oppressive social order than with washing their hands of it.