Social Quotes

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician because they can put something on YouTube and it might become a thing because there's - like - YouTube phenomenons and whatnot, you know? It's not like they dedicated years to it or anything. It's annoying.

Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.

At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

I am not a televangelist.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

There were two auditions for 'The Social Network,' one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, 'Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?'

Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

I'm a perfectionist.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.