Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. – David K. Shipler
A novel, even a social realist one, can’t simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself. – Chang-Rae Lee
The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s. – Edmund Phelps
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. – Moshe Katsav
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. – Ellen Goodman
I don’t want to be rude, but I’m not that social. When I say, ‘I never go out,’ I mean, ‘I never go out.’ – Emily Rios
Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers. – David Ignatius
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. – Eric Hoffer
When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace. – Ellen Key
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. – Derek Jarman
Increasingly, I’m inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit. – Ethan Zuckerman
Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population. – Moshe Sharett
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. – David Korten
Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network. – David Weinberger
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology. – George Herbert Mead
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. – Earl Browder
Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life! – Derek Jacobi