#social

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#clichés #crimes #double-standards #fidelity #gender

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#conform #find #having #impossible #music

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#hard #i #me #need #pretty

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#behind #british #calls #counterpart #dangerous

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. ↗

— Mark Foley

#against #american #american government #assuring #elderly

This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#cannot #done #exciting #first #going

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#civilized #enterprise #learn #part #school

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#between #differences #discrimination #efforts #equality

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#education #emotional #hope #in other words #including

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#cardboard #cardboard box #i #novel #recycled