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«No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action»
Author: Emma Goldman
| Keywords:
After the Revolution, brought, brought about, carried, revolution, social, social action, social change, social changes
«Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
| Keywords:
accepts, Body Parts, bond, brutally, environment, escapes, governed, Great Society, imposed, material, material body, physical body, privilege, social, subject, subject to, superior, superiority, to that, transcended, transcends, yoke, yoked, yokes
«The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.»
Author: Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Priest)
| Keywords:
activity, bearing, bearings, burdens, defects, elementary, overlooking, overlooks, professions, social, social activity, The Family, The Practice
«The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.»
Author: Marian Wright Edelman
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challenge, community, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, safer, social, social justice, The Challenge
«The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
biologically, creates, fixed, Human nature, human process, inclinations, social, social process, The Social
«The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| Keywords:
resistance, Say It, social, social change, social changes
«Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
constituencies, constituency, discovered, finally, includes, made-up, percent, population, populations, program, programmed, security, social, Social Security, special, special interest, special interests, vote
«One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
affects, birth, bring about, conditioning, contentment, core, degree, discover, human being, ideology, neither, question, social, suffering, therefore, think about, underlie, underlies
«They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
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controlling, Federal, federal government, like it, program, programmed, security, social, social control, Social Security, The Federal
«Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Men and Women
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As If, bored, end, end man, first woman, her, loved, perfect, possessing, reputation, season, seasoning, social, tact, talk, talk to, The End
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