#soc

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#focus #important #mysteries #nature #problems

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#between #class #classes #development #dominated

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#head #i #i am #party #property

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#attorney #attorney general #challenged #criminal #general

I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around. ↗

— Charlene Tilton

#around #calendars #driving #end #get

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another. ↗

— Colin Firth

#another #associate #i #loser #one time

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#communication #connections #distance #divide #down

When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#believe #believes #everybody #grow #grow up

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#complexity #consists #delicacy #evolution #formation