#soc

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow. ↗

— Guy Burgess

#feature #folks #fought #from time to time #justice

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#classification #continuity #corresponding #degree #different

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#down #ignore #leaders #major #others

I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#characters #feel #feeling #fit #i

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#decisions #democracy #economy #intelligence #literate

My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance. ↗

— Herman Cain

#bigger #candidates #chance #citizens #combination

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#i #involved #normal #really #soccer

I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school. ↗

— Neko Case

#away #bands #entitled #especially #feel

As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.' ↗

— Dan T. Cathy

#constitutes #fist #general #god #him

I never sought to privatize Social Security. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#never #privatize #security #social #social security