#social

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. ↗

— Wayne Allard

#big #contributing #employees #entire #gamble

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals. ↗

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

#social-justice #theology #equality

We seek in one another the assurance that there is just one correct interpretation of the world, that everything is so simple that anybody can see it unless they're malicious or stupid or willfully ignorant; and we punish one another for proving with our differing conclusions that the truth is not that easy. We think we must suppress dissension to present the unified front we need to gain power over our enemies. But there are pro-life Democrats, pro-choice Christians, feminists who love their families, and conservatives who care about poor people. ↗

— Alisa Harris

#politics #social-justice #faith

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#bank #bank account #card #cause #credit

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. ↗

— August Bebel

#atheism #called #domain #economics #politics

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#average #being #culture #does #exist

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. ↗

— Keith Henson

#death #family #friends #friends and family #intense

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins. ↗

— Keith Henson

#because #brain #causes #chemicals #highly

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cults #expenses #massive #military #movements

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. ↗

— Keith Henson

#games #insight #into #killing #least