#social

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children. ↗

— John Goodman

#children #cost #delay #each #future

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#better life #first #jesus #life #mankind

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#cannot #democracy #life #live #organization

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#democracy #everyday #everyday life #life #means

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#confronting #exactly #general #ghost #grappling

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #chewed #fun #got #i

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#contract #go #insurance #intent #original

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#confronts #different #even #live #people

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained. ↗

— Derrick A. Bell

#equality #ethics #injustice #meritocracy #prosperity