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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction
Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
We always talk about bullying, bullies; that is what social media is. It's just people we gave a voice to who didn't deserve to have a voice.
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
In high school, I was friends with everybody. I had my core group of friends, but I could flow through different social groups pretty easily.
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder.
I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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.
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.
I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.
Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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.
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
Social media can be dangerous. People hide behind their computers and write negative things, so I like to keep it about communicating with my fans.
Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.
It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.
Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.