#social

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#every #evil #found #george #great

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#arena #between #demonstrates #dramatically #entry

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. ↗

— James Connolly

#cannot #conditions #derives #inspiration #just

That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#art #awkward #because #between #bridge

The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#administration #always #bill #budget #completely

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american #benefits #citizens #civilization #economic

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#actual #adequate #american #american life #aspiration

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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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