#social

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#emotional #evidence #factors #faith #host

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools. ↗

— Hu Shih

#bring #changes #done #economic #even

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. ↗

— Hu Shih

#brought #changes #china #chinese #chinese people

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. ↗

— John Shirley

#didactic #heavy #i #incapable #integrated

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#fad #i #just #just because #never

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#am #beneficiaries #benefits #committed #concerned

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#advocate #arrows #cows #hypocrisy #into

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#accused #afford #aggression #arab #because

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#matter #our time #poor #poverty #questions