Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to act the latter become uncouth brutes.
~ Cesare Pavese
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.
~ Arthur Stringer
Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.
~ William T. Davis
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
~ Ann Landers
I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer the beer stronger the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
~ Brendan Behan
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.
~ Joe Green
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.
~ Lisa Randall
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
~ Bernard Williams
I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
~ George Smathers
The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
~ Charles Eastman
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
~ Bernice Weissbourd
I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.
~ James G. Stavridis
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
~ Martin Luther King
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
~ Craig Bruce
No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
~ George Whitefield
I think women are excellent social critics.
~ Laurie Anderson
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
~ Friedrich Engels
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.
~ Dian Fossey
Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
~ Jan Morris
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
~ Thomas Steinbeck
White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
~ James A. Forbes
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
~ Maria Montessori
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
~ David Vitter
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
~ Walter Benjamin
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
~ G. M. Trevelyan
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
~ Karl Marx
There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
~ Frank Abagnale
I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
~ Barry Commoner
