#soc

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. ↗

— Luis Valdez

#freedom #history #liberty #native-american #society

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#concept #difficult #difficult time #especially #foreign

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion. ↗

— George Whitefield

#religion #social

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#another #been #book #both #collaboration

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#big #big family #family #hope #many

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#empathy #selfishness #social-intelligence #intelligence

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#learn #london #paris #poise #rivals

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world. ↗

— Harry von Zell

#medium #most #personal #radio #socially