Quotes About Social

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.

Paulo Freire of Brazil puts it this way: "It would be extremely naïve to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

In other words, the capacity to exercise power is always a reflection of one's position in social relations.

Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.

A lot happens to the concept of agency once nonhuman things are figured less as social constructions and more as actors, and once humans themselves are assessed not as autonoms but as vital materialities.

The upper classes worshipped then, as now, not the Spirit of Spring but their own ancestors.

the primary social goal of children (and adults) was to belong and feel significant within their family or social group. Although they are not always conscious of this goal, children constantly adjust their behavior to achieve a sense of belonging (connection) and significance (responsibility and capability).

Greta coined the phrase, "You are who you eat with.