The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?
I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Marxism rejected the family and the state, but in practice it kept these institutions. Every pure religion disapproved of man's worrying about this world, but as the ideology of living people, it accepted the struggle for social justice and a better ...
The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must cons...
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…
I'm so sorry. I think I'm just tired." The socially accepted excuse for being mental.
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political po...
I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.
