"We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness."
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"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."
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"Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security."
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"It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies."
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"The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business."
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"No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate."
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"It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency."
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"The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic."
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"Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it."
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"I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions."
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"Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme."
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"There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony."
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"And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis."
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"Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators."
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"I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on."
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"Social media has a way of revealing someone and can be very telling."
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"I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it."
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"The reliance on social media as the avenue to get peer insight continues to increase."
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"I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media."
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"The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions."
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