Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
If we don't define the terms of our success then we are stuck with the socially programmed default settings of success, which is just money.
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.
The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.
The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.
Disconnecting from one’s community is a personal choice, of course, but it ends up having social implications ["The Basement,” , Feb 5, 2015].
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.
