Quotes About Social

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Brazil is a country that has rich people, as you have in New York City, as you have in Berlin or in London. But we also have poor people like in Bangladesh or in African suburbs.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Dogs have the same ability and the same social skills to avoid conflicts as wolves have.

Dogs and wolves have strong instincts for conflict solving, communication and cooperation.

Il n'est pas sûr, enfin, qu'en voulant donner une sanction sociale à la dignité, Améry ne l'ait pas confondue avec ce qu'on appellerait plutôt l'honneur : celui-ci consiste bien en une forme de reconnaissance accordée par la société en fonction de ses codes ; celle-là, en revanche, l'individu isolé peut aussi l'éprouver.

Cette attitude non héroïque a cependant un inconvénient : c'est qu'elle se prête mal aux récits ou en tous les cas aux récits de facture classique ; or la fonction narrative est indispensable dans toute société.

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

In J. I. Carpendale & U. Müller (Eds.), Social interaction and the development of knowledge: Critical evaluation of Piaget's contribution (pp. 67–85).

However, the construction of the social world does not receive the same level of attention in Piaget's work on infancy as the construction of the physical world.

Jackson, I. (1987). On situating Piaget's subject: A triangulation based on Kant, structuralism, and biology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 17, 471–486.

Boom, J. (2004). Individualism and collectivism: A dynamic systems interpretation of Piaget's interactionism. In J. I. Carpendale & U. Müller (Eds.), Social interaction and the development of knowledge: Critical evaluation of Piaget's contribution (pp. 67–85). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

For all practical purposes "race" is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth.

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

what else are parallel structures than an area where a different life can be lived, a life that is in harmony with its own aims and which in turn structures itself in harmony with those aims? . . .What else are those initial attempts at social self-organization than the efforts of a certain part of society…to rid itself of the self-sustaining aspects of totalitarianism and, thus, to extricate itself radically from its involvement in the…totalitarian system?

It is largely up to the politicians which social forces they choose to liberate and which they choose to suppress, whether they rely on the good in each citizen or the bad. The former regime systematically mobilized the worst human qualities, like selfishness, envy, and hatred.

I must emphasize and explain repeatedly the moral dimensions of all social life, and point out that morality is, in fact, hidden in everything. And this is true; whenever I encounter a problem in my work and try to get to the bottom of it, I always discover some moral aspect, be it apathy, unwillingness to recognize personal error or guilt, reluctance to give up certain positions and the advantages flowing from them, envy, an excess of self-assurance, or whatever.

So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.

Could such a shift be accomplished without eventually converting to a no-growth economy and reducing the current global population? For individuals, this would mean a no less revolutionary delinking of social status from material consumption.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Intersectionality To the strange folk wandering through the byways of Agenda 21, intersectionality (an ugly word if ever I saw one – as, incidentally, are many of the words created by and for the Agenda 21 disciples) is the theory that as individuals we are discriminated against and oppressed by social identities such as race, sex and class. (They never mention age, of course, because old people don't count.)

Regrets at losing social or financial opportunities are both delusion and needless pain.

The foundation for the practice of the social art of homemaking lies in understanding the human being, not only with regard to physical necessities, but also in connection with psychological and spiritual needs, as well as expressions and qualities that live in everyone. Learning to live creatively with other people means learning about all our wonders, weaknesses and glorious potential. But it also means learning to recognize our dependence and influence on the totality of the world around us.