Quotes of: Social-conditions Keyword

To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after attending an execution at the stake of their respective p...

Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means...

Nicholas A. Christakis

The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates �...

George Monbiot

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and...

Joseph Prince

Gage: 39 days after the initial meeting with my clients and Mr. Zuckerberg still hadn't completed work on HarvardConnection. But, on January 1st, 2004, Mr. Zuckerberg registered the domain name "theFacebook" by, uh, Network Solutions. To the best of ...

The Social Network

I'm not a gadget freak, so to say. I own an iPhone, which I love, and would sorely love to upgrade to MacBook Air from my current MacBook Pro. But what gets me going is the technology behind the gadgets, new websites, new apps. And I'm way too much i...

Shreya Ghoshal

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometim...

William Gibson

Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in spite of the childish Machiavellism in which some of th...

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual competitors, so it ignores equilibria altogether. Conser...

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

You see, the thing about working with pirates is that they know what they are doing. They already know more than you do because they are sailing and raiding. They are the experts in your organization, and you need to get them on your side, not turn t...

Social Media ROI: Managing and measuring social media efforts in your organization

We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search for someone to marry become self-absorbed and patheti...

Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Karl Marx

Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.

Carl-John X. Veraja

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

Gretchen Rubin

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

Celebration of Discipline

For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.

Escape from the Shadowlands

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

The Art of War

I never did have much, so having it rough came with the territory. I was conditioned for it.

Bitter Blood

Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.

Begotten with Love: Every Family Has Its Story

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge