Social Quotes - Page 33

I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.

I don’t want traffic behavior, I want social behavior.

Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.