Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.
Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we're involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.
I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.
I'm still down with Jesus. I like to think of him mostly as a social revolutionary who mixed with bad crowds and hated the rich.
We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.
I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.
To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
'Awkward Black Girl' is spreading to all the right people because of word of mouth and social networks. I'm so grateful.
La santé est une propriété permanente, potentiellement mesurable par la capacité de l'individu à se remettre des agressions, qu'elles soient chimiques, physiques, infectieuses, psychologiques ou sociales.
It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
