Quotes About Social

Rien ne répugne plus à un Allemand que de sentir qu'on a plaisir à le rencontrer. Soyez déplaisant, revêche, cassant, et vous le verrez de minute en minute se faire plus aimable.

What Susie cannot grasp is that for Anna, to achieve her independence from living off Susie's money through marrying a rich man, she is merely exchanging one form of enslavement for another and all within a social set that bores Anna to distraction.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

What is achieved in blaming a man for being selfish and greedy if he acts under the influence of a social environment and education which teach him that he is an animal and that selfishness and greediness are of the essence of his nature?

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

The knowing consciousness is a form of the social consciousness, and should not therefore be viewed in isolation from psychology and human history.

Não se deve esperar da cultura de massas e, menos ainda, da sua versão capitalista de indústria cultural, o que ela não quer dar: lições de liberdade social e estímulos para a cons­trução de um mundo que não esteja atrelado ao dinheiro e ao status.

He who has one-hundred friends has no friends to lose, he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

However, blackness, no less than whiteness, has been and continues to be a socially constructed and therefore highly contentious racial description.

networks of social relations and institutions which have the effect of sustaining a combination of actions, cultures, and practices which then reproduce racialized inequalities over time.

In the light of the history sketched out above, it should be clear, counterintuitive though it may seem, that 'whiteness' (and 'blackness') is as much achieved as ascribed.

Most sociologists in the UK and many in the USA are now convinced by scientific research that 'race' is a social construct rather than a biological fact.

I feel awkward, I don't know how to stand up among others.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Storytelling can be more than a blog post, essay, or book. It can be an emoji, a meme, a selfie, or a tweet. It can become a movement for social change.

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.

The odds are loaded toward a path of least resistance in several ways. We often choose a path because it is the only one we see. When I get on an elevator, for example, I turn and face front along with everyone else. It rarely occurs to me to do it any other way, such as facing the rear. If I did, I'd soon feel how some paths bring on more social resistance than others.

Muitas pessoas se contentam em evitar o escândalo, pois seu orgulho sofreria com isso, sua reputação seria diminuída entre os homens.

Prophecy is a poetry of change, social, political, moral, spiritual. It was with the prophetic model in mind that Shelley wrote of poets as the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

Yeah, he's just a huge flirt. He flirted with me, every female reporter within eyeshot, some of the men, and a pot plant on the way into his office. It's pathological.

Faking it in front of a guy's family is hardly a common occurrence in my life. How about yours?" FAKING IT TO MAKING IT

I love your bracelet!' I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.