Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt. – Hank Johnson
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others. – Graham Joyce
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath. – Gilbert Newton Lewis
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. – Helen Clark
The country will also need ‘new forms of social welfare’ instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. – Giorgio Napolitano
The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention. – George Akerlof
In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. – Greg Boyle
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. – Hjalmar Schacht
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren’t ‘plug-and-play.’ The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them. – Howard Rheingold
Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation. – George W. Romney
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. – Herbert Read
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution. – Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events. – Hans Frank
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone – to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew. – Helen Fisher
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them. – Huston Smith
The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. – Hjalmar Branting
It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction. – Henry Cabot Lodge
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged. – Henry Giroux
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact. – John Quincy Adams
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. – Havelock Ellis
Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table. – Joe Biden
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn’t be bothered – that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It’s so off-putting. – Janeane Garofalo