Social Quotes

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

~ Mark Rydell

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

~ Karl Popper

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

~ Estelle Morris

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

~ Richard Rogers

The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.

~ Mary Gaitskill

I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement.

~ Luis Fonsi

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

~ Charles A. Beard

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

~ C. L. R. James

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.

~ Vance Havner

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

~ William Clay Ford

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

~ David Rockefeller

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

~ Max Cannon

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

~ Moshe Katsav

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

~ Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

~ Margaret Mead