We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.
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.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
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 fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
