Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.
Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
