Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and lit...
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.
Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.
In today's world, learning has become the key to economic prosperity, social cohesion and personal fulfillment. We can no longer afford to educate the few to think, and the many to do.
People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.
Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.
I don't want to be rude, but I'm not that social. When I say, 'I never go out,' I mean, 'I never go out.'
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
