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.
The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself.
Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
