Quotes with social-survey

Quotes 281 till 300 of 361.

  • Arthur Hertzberg The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bainbridge Colby The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Claude T. Bissell The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi 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.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Carroll Quigley The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Bernard Devoto The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Abu Sa'id The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments.
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Freda Adler 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.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Emma Goldman The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Octave Mirbeau The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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  • Beth Orton The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Bing Gordon The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • John Lennon The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Abbey Lincoln There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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