Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.
We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like mortician...
Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
I believe that all students, when asked to be accountable for their actions and to be socially aware citizens, will become agents for change!
Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
