#soc

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ↗

— Albert Claude

#also #behavior #bringing #cells #come

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#enough #homemaker #man #mother #our

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken. ↗

— Emanuel Cleaver

#covenant #security #should #social #social security

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#become #care #chances #democrats #electoral

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#below #freedom #keys #liberalism #makes

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#comes #conservative #conservative party #conservatives #democrat

We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#credible #economy #fairer #labour #liberal

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people. ↗

— Stella Blum

#consensus #fashion #group #large #large group

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#become #believe #credulous #danger #enough