Social Quotes - Page 23

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

Socialism never took root in America.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

Social media allows big companies to act small again.

Content that helps is superior to content that sells.

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

Beauty is a social necessity.

Hitler was never a socialist.