I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.
Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.
The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'
We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.
We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
