#social

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#contract #help #need #our #people

I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#allow #believe #condition #contribute #coupled

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#ideal #interdependence #man #much #ought

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#conflict #could #defeated #germany #given

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#economic #economic life #life #meet #needs

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#courtesy #government #handled #indispensable #most

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#exclusively #exile #ideological #moral #motivated

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#bring #country #family #greatest #mankind

I'm not any kind of social reformer. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#i #kind #reformer #social