Top 1200 Social Innovation Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.

People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.

I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people without a voice or people who are oppressed.

Both search and social have these distribution angles to them. Before social, if you wanted any sort of traffic on the web, it had to come from search.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

I know how to market a lot through social media. My social media, the numbers is crazy.

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.

Community interest companies are a growing form of regulated social enterprises, and we want to make sure that the rules are as friendly as possible for investors and social enterprises.

Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.

Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

Seniors are concerned about Medicare and Social Security. I advocated in Congress a separate and distinct lockbox fund for Social Security.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit unwillingly. It could hardly fail to injure social peace and harmony.

Social media teams can and do launch clever campaigns, but game-changing Social Business initiatives are typically driven by management teams.

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

I think social media tools are helpful, so long as you pick your social media wisely.

Actors are citizens like any other person in the country. People idolize them and follow their activities. So, our involvement in social services comes from this feeling of social commitment and responsibility. We don't do all this to be in the news.

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.

You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

The dog is more social. I am not saying that cats are totally unsocial but dogs are more social.

There's the good and the bad aspects to Social Media. What I do find great is how much social media has changed businesses and the way they structure their marketing.

Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

You can't build a strong future for millennials or young people just based on social media. If so, they'd be all secure with Mr. Trudeau, who is very good at social media.

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

We use social media as a platform to speak on issues that we feel passionate about and I see people debating on Twitter all the time about social injustices.

Social studies was my favorite subject. I remember I portrayed Walter Mondale in a mock debate in my sophomore social studies class.

We're social media-driven now, the social media team is huge in WWE. It really helps expand our brand.

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

I don't know why the leaders of social networks have overlooked the idea of rules. Real-life behavior is becoming more reflective of social media instead of vice versa, and that's a dangerous thing.

The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

A mimetic crisis is when people become undifferentiated. There are no more social classes, there are no more social differences, and so forth.

In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise.

For me, faith is personal, but the implications are social - as personal and social responsibility are at the heart of the Christian message.

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

The political, the economic, the social are tied together like the strands of a rope. The social and economic, if they are firm, tend to strengthen the other.

You're living in a matrix that's driven by social media. It's become glorified. You're suppose to be what you portray on social media, thats the perception.

Social justice for parties like the DMK, DK and the PMK is nothing but practising dynasty politics. Their concept of social justice is successor and family rule.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.