Quotes About Social

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Politics is social work with power.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.

Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.