Social media allows big companies to act small again.
Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (. . . ) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.
The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.
Legalizing pot would benefit society by first off having laws applicable to all, without those in control breaking the laws and making a mockery of our system. We need social justice. This requires laws equally applied to all. In addition, we could educate and rehabilitate the wrong doers. Not incarnate those misfortunate people for doubtful wrongs.
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.
We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms
Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
