Quotes About Social

he drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.

A victim of his environment, the ghetto child begins his school career, psychologically, socially, and physically disadvantaged.

This is an example of applying an exceptionalistic solution to a universalistic problem. It is not accurate to say that lead poisoning results from the actions of individual neglectful mothers. Rather, lead poisoning is a social phenomenon supported by a number of social mechanisms, one of the most tragic by-products of the systematic toleration of slum housing.

How apt the poor are to be proud.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.

Yet the great weakness of linear time is that it obliterates time's recurrence and thus cuts people off from the eternal—whether in nature, in each other, or in ourselves. When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves. We cannot ritually join with those who come before or after us.

When we deem our social destiny entirely self-directed and our personal lives self-made, we lose any sense of participating in a collective myth larger than ourselves.

Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church is the embassy of the eschaton in the world. The church is the image of what the world is in its essential being. The Church is the trustee of the society which the world, not subjected to the power of death, is to be on that last day when the world is fulfilled in all things in God.

The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society - in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.

However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.

to lift a man by education from one social stratum to another is to expose him to a terrible temptation—the temptation to despise his own people.

Of all the preferences that evolution gave us, I suspect the desire to share the contents of our minds played the single most important role in elevating us to the top of the food chain.* We are the fiercest predator on the planet by virtue of the power of our minds, but even human minds aren't that special on their own.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

The family has been sacrificed on the altar of economic and social success, and only the church can break that cycle, because it has found a better and more humane way to live: for God.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

M]ore and more scholars are ready to take the Chinese economy neither as an ad hoc, patchy, and half-measure free-market economy, nor as a chaotic, corrupt, and fading command system, but as an economic, social, and political alternative in the making, an experiment whose provisionality proves to be the norm.

The social protests now erupting around the world are less about gaining power and more about taking power away from those who seem to have betrayed their duty.