#social

If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream? ↗

— S. Balaram

#social-responsibility #design

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist. ↗

— Martin Niemoller

#came #did #i #out #socialist

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform. ↗

— Steve Israel

#changes #consider #considering #disabilities #how

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#friendly #loyal #most #people #realize

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#art #break #change #changeable #decay

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. ↗

— Charles Fourier

#basic #basic principle #extension #principle #progress

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#earth #effects #how #national #national security

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. ↗

— Friedrick Engels

#democracy #engelism #free-thinker #free-thought #freedom

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#ladder #mask #social #thicker #wears