Quotes with social-welfare

Quotes 321 till 340 of 382.

  • Toni Morrison There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • E. J. Hobsbawm There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
    E. J. Hobsbawm
    British historian
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  • Barbara Castle There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Albert Camus There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Carter G. Woodson They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Beth Ditto This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Campbell Brown This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Florence King Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Ben Bernanke To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Robert Frost To be social is to be forgiving.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Locke To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Bernard Crick To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 2, A Defence Of Politics Against Ideology, p.
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Callie Khouri To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Beth Simone Noveck To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Christopher Lasch Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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