Social Quotes

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.

William T. Davis

Tis the final conflict! Let each stand in his place! The international working class shall be the human race!

The Internationale

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

Thorstein Veblen

I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer the beer stronger the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.

Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

To be social is to be forgiving.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.

Charles Merrill Smith

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Alfred North Whitehead

In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.

Anonymous

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Anonymous

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.

Hippolyte Taine

Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to act the latter become uncouth brutes.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

G.K. Chesterton

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Stringer

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Henry David Thoreau

Somerset House in London where at one time English vital statistics were kept - birth marriage and death records - was known as the egg factory "where they hatch 'em match 'em and dispatch 'em."

Anonymous

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

Laurence Durrell

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

Miguel de Cervantes

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

Ebenezer Elliott

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Sebastien Chamfort

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions, and learn to determine the value of your individual and collective action, however directed on material ends, in the light of the ideal which you are supposed to represent. Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiements on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries - seeing what makes the toy squeak or the adult shriek?

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

Nicolas Chamfort

There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology of the person, but rather the interdependency of persons, involving reproducible and sustaining social relations, and relations to the environment and to non-human forms of life, broadly considered. This mode of social ontology (for which no absolute distinction between social and ecological exists) has concrete implications for how we re-approach the issues of reproductive freedom and anti-war politics. The question is not whether a given being is living or not, nor whether the being in question has the status of a “person”; it is, rather, whether the social conditions of persistence and flourishing are or are not possible. Only with this latter question can we avoid the anthropocentric and liberal individualist presumptions that have derailed such discussions.

We are naked, but we think we are not; we are wrong, but think we are correct. We are misled but we think we are properly guided. We think we have leaders but in reality we do not. What we have are tyrants.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

We have passed some of the dirtiest chapters of mankind. Perhaps we are heading towards further inhuman treatments in many places such as Syria and Palestine.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

i'm social but there's a limit

Jiri Meert Guldemont

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

Malcolm Gladwell

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.

The best tactic against evil isn't confront with him, otherwise is to get away from him

Válgame

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

Charles Dickens

Life is too short to care about what other people says and thinks about you. So live life and give them something to talk about.

If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

To be social is to be forgiving.

A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each against each, so brutal and incesssant that it was impossible to develop industry or even agriculture or the arts while that condition persisted. It's this description that culmintes in his famous epithet "And the life of man, solitary, poor, brutish, and short." It was a fiction to which he brought to bear another fiction, that of the social contract by which men agree to submit to rules and a presiding authority, surrendering their right to ravage each other for the sake of their own safety. The contract was not a bond of affection or identification, bot a culture or religion binding togetehr a civilization, only a convenience. Men, in his view, as in that of many other European writers of the period, are stark, mechanical creatures, windup soldiers social only by strategy and not by nature...

Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time--can be exhausting.

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