#social

Thinking globally does not mean thinking socially. ↗

— Ilkin Santak

#communism #equal-rights #global-thinking #human-rights #liberalism

In an age when the difference between prince and peasant was thought to be in the stars, Mr Tzara, art was naturally an affirmation for the one and a consolation to the other; but we live in an age when the social order is seen to be the work of material forces and we have been given an entirely new kind of responsibility, the responsibility of changing society. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#age

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses. ↗

— George Oppen

#away #carefully #etc #left #masses

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results. ↗

— Sean Parker

#did #elements #extremely #innovative #lot

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#because #being #blown #event #frightened

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#benefits #democrats #failed #fight #gamble

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics. ↗

— Li Peng

#choose #conditions #countries #development #light

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#adolescence #aside #authentic #display #experience

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#finds #found #graph #just #like

And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#because #entitlement #going #medicare #reform