Quotes 141 till 160 of 397.
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If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919) -
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
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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.
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
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In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address -
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
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In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
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In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 302 -
In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
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In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.
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