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Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them
Lev S. Vygotsky
Humans' cognitive development relies upon their social relationships and the absorption of knowledge from those in their environment.
2.
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes
Government is essential, not because man is inherently wicked... but because man is by nature more independent than collective.
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Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.
Jeff Cooper
'Political correctness is a form of social control, and its elimination should be encouraged.'
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The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
Saul Alinsky
Revive the disenchantment to drive revolutionary alteration.
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
Emile Durkheim
The entirety of our communal atmosphere appears to us to be overflowing with energies that are truly imaginary.
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Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul II
Peace is the route to achieving equity.
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Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.
Emile Durkheim
'Humans are ethical creatures, only due to their integration into the collective. Should all forms of communal existence vanish, so too will ethicality.'
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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
There is no such thing as racial differentiation. No distinction exists; humans are a singular species from a scientific and anthropological perspective. Prejudice is an artificial construct, a manufactured concept... it serves a specific role in society.
9.
I'm a real dude from a real place and I never express myself through social sites. I don't feed into it, man. That's not real life.
Yo Gotti
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
12.
David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.
Stephen Stills
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The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
Friedrich Engels
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
Milton Friedman
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Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.
Henry Mintzberg
18.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Wole Soyinka
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Max Weber
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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
Peter Ustinov
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
Leon Trotsky
23.
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis
Carl Levin
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Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.
Solomon Asch
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In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country
Barbara Mikulski
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Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.
Joseph Beuys
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The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
Karl Marx
30.
People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.
Sheila McKechnie
31.
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.
David Harvey
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Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.
Robert D. Hare
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There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
Milton Friedman
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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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National security is vital for economic and social progress.
Paul Kagame
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women
Thomas Sankara
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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
Noah Webster
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I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.
Hope Solo
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
Alan Greenspan
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Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.
Spiro Kostof
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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Aldo Leopold
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The power of social media is it forces necessary change.
Erik Qualman
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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
Indira Gandhi
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A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.
Muhammad Yunus
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Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.
Murray Bookchin
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Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
Arthur Henderson
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However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.
Simone de Beauvoir