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.
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.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which ...
