Social Quotes - Page 37

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.

Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

Social media has created an awesome platform not only for the fans to be able to communicate directly with the artist, but for new artists to have a platform to share music. As far as me, I love it because it allows the fans to connect with me.

We are fast approaching a situation in which nobody will believe anything we [physicists] say in any matter that touches upon our self-interest. Nothing we do is likely to arrest our decline in numbers, support or social value.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.