Quotes of: Social-movements Keyword

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'

Liberty Ross

Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

Anita Elberse

All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.

Anatoly Rybakov

I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

Bill Bryson

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

Brigitte Bardot

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

Bill Cosby

If this is going to be my last day on earth, I do not want it to be socially awkward.

Life

If you have not given up as yet, failure is not a relevant social status in your life.

Wayne Chirisa

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

Wes Studi

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

Clay Shirky

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashley Montagu

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Olympia Dukakis

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Patricia Hill Collins

For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...

From Family Collapse to America's Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all good-looking individuals managed: making the rest of us...

To Hear The Ocean Sigh

Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug ...

Race Traitor

Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever....It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human life, to explore space with robots. The technology is...

The social conquest of Earth

For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into “let’s all be the same.” Male and female biological differences are discounted, because “male” and “female” are considered “outdated social constructs,” and while that is par...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

Believe it or not, some of us have piercings and tattoos and dye our hair because we think it looks pretty, not for any deep sociological reason. This isn't an act of protest against cultural or social repression. It's not a grand, deliberately defia...

The Ninth Circle

Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own special privilege a certain unique destiny not afforded with equal measure to other organisms, so must it further—if paradoxically ...

Sinew of the Social Species

Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of rampant ritualized group sex, mate-swapping, unrestrained casual affairs, and social...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality