Quotes About Social

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.'

Putting women first would mean strengthening America's social safety net, because a higher proportion of single-mother families live in poverty here than in any other wealthy country.

One of the striking features of the early episodes of AMC's hit television show 'Mad Men' is the similarities in the lifestyle enjoyed by the lowest paid members of Don Draper's advertising company and its wealthy partners.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear. But if you turn it into an instrument, it's like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.

If you are looking to create an information weapon, the battle space you operate in is social media. That is where the fight happens.

For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.

People really give you a hard time when you wear fake glasses out to a bar.

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.

I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.

Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.

You know what's dope about social media, the Internet, and stuff in general? It's that you never really realized before how much love you get, and now you can see people around the country wearing your stuff or wearing your face.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

For centuries in Britain, the small-talk standby has been the weather.

Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.