Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.
By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.