Quotes with social-welfare

Quotes 341 till 360 of 382.

  • Blake Mycoskie Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Flores Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Boxer We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Billy Corgan We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bob Rae We spend the vast bulk of money in the health, welfare, and education systems in the later years of life. Yet it is in the earliest years that life chances are moulded and set.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Six, The Second Question: Health, Education, a
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Bill Drayton 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.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Brigham Young We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Bill Bruford We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Anita Borg We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Edgar Quinet What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Benjamin Watson What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Buddha Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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