Social quotes
930 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism."
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls."
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
"The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time."
"Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other."
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"Design is a response to social change."
"The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life."
"Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families."
"It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them."
"A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again."
"However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born."
"Social man lives constantly outside himself."
"Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too."
"No social stability without individual stability."
"Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence."
"There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society."
"There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour."
"Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life."
"Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand."
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
"I believe the best social program is a job."
"One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism."
"Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together."
"I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong"
"If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media."
