“I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.” WayBelieveHumansPlayChoicesI BelieveSocialHuman BeingsEnvironmentMajorsConditioningUpbringingGenetics Author:Kathy Najimy
“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.” LongDoeProblemGovernmentDesireChoicesSocialTermSecurityDemandTaxesToughSpendingBudgetsLong TermEfficientSocial SecurityEntitlementAccountingMedicareSave MeDeceptiveGimmicksTough Choices Author:Reince Priebus
“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.” PeopleNeedsArtBookSelfMightChoicesWinningEnergySocialEasyViewsMediaSocial MediaSelf WorthLikesFollowersVenture Author:Neil Strauss
“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?” WorldYearsMightAblePoliticalChoicesSocialLosesCompanyOpinionSharePositionConnectionsMeaningfulPostsConsumersDominantSocial NetworkPolitical Opinions Author:Al Franken
“A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.” IfsHandsChoicesCultureEnergySocialStylePolicyLowsRelationWideAlternativesCapitalistConsumptionSocialistDegradingLife StyleEnergy PolicyHigh EnergySocial RelationsEnergy Consumption Author:Ivan Illich
“According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.” ImportantMatterChoicesSocialPrinciplesIssuesWisePositionIgnoranceSeriousUltimateImportanceEngagedSaneSoberGambleMadmenOur ChoicesSocial ScienceResignedSoundnessSerious IssuesUnsoundness Author:Leo Strauss
“It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.” WorldShouldProblemHomeAmericaChoicesOpportunityNationsSocialJusticePracticeClearGrowingRightsDangerCitizensEqualCapableConcernedStrongerSocial JusticeComplexesDefenseEducatedOur FutureEqual RightsDemonstratingTacklingComplex ProblemsProspering Author:John F. Kennedy
“my choices were partly conditioned by the two great laws - of biology and sociology - for I do not conceive of myself outside of them. ... Inside every biological and social situation I am free to make decisions.” TwoLawChoicesSocialDecisionSituationBiologySociology Author:Nina Berberova
“The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don't seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation there are a few that make others choices.” LooksSeemsYoungChoicesSocialGenerationsClothesYoung WomenSocial LifePreoccupation Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.” ThinkingNeedsHumansSaidRealityGovernmentChoicesSocialJusticeHuman BeingsPartyPayCostThirdsSocial JusticeNotionHolmesBeing WrongImpositionThird Parties Author:Thomas Sowell
“Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.” ThinkingSelfFeelingsChoicesSocialEmotionalIntellectualPerformancesContrastInteractionSelf ControlInterfereSmoothCompetenceSpontaneitySuppressionSocial InteractionStiflingHamper Author:Daniel Goleman
“The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.” IfsHumansChoicesGivenSocialHuman BeingsMediaStrangeLessonsSocial Media Author:Walter Kirn
“Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity” ThinkingChildrenImportantHardChoicesFunSocialStuffJusticeSilenceIssuesSocial JusticeEngagingCompoundsCurriculumTroublesomeFluff Author:Janet Robertson
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.” ArtRealityArtistChoicesLiteratureSocialWealthDealsConditionsTalentPositionPagesOrdinaryPsychologicalRealismExceptionalImaginativeFreedom Of Choice Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.” WorldHelpingActionChoicesGirlIndividualSocialGrowthBoysSupportEnvironmentFieldsAdventureIndustryComfortLaborMotherhoodCirclesWildernessNurtureSocial Action Author:Gerda Lerner
“If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.” PeopleIfsGivingChoicesSocialSecurityGiving UpAnarchyStabilityDictatorshipPersonal FreedomPears Author:Margaret Atwood
“All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is for traditional families, healthy families and a healthy nation. One does not exclude the other and does not hinder the other. I think this is a balanced approach and is entirely the right approach.” PeopleThinkingShouldDoeFacesPoliticalChoicesNationsSocialRightsHealthyApproachDiscriminationTraditionalEmploymentBalancedStrategicHinderPolitical RightsTraditional FamilyHealthy Family Author:Vladimir Putin
“We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.” LooksChoicesSocialMoralFiveLessonsMurderSuicideMultipleSermonsSelectMultiple ChoiceMoral Lessons Book:The White Album Source: The White Album
“I'm for higher standards measured in an intellectually honest way, with abundant school choice, ending social promotion. And I know how to do this because as governor of the state of Florida I created the first statewide voucher program in the country, the second statewide voucher program, in the country and the third statewide voucher program in the country.” KnowsWayFirstsCountryStatesSchoolChoicesSocialKnow HowHonestHigherStandardsProgramThirdsGovernorsFloridaPromotionHigher StandardsVouchersSchool Choice Author:Jeb Bush
“I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been hurt, get their worth and value from what they do, what they look like, what they own, what kind of job they have, what kind of house they live in, how much money they have, what social circles they're in, what level of education they have, especially even how other people respond to them. They feel better about themselves if everybody is giving a smiling nod to the way they look and all their choices.” PeopleIfsWayGivingFeelsBelieveLooksKindHas BeensTodayJobsValuesChoicesHouseI BelieveSocialHurtLevelsHavensCirclesOur SocietyFeel BetterBeen HurtSociety Today Author:Joyce Meyer
“I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.” PeopleThinkingNeedsChoicesIndividualSocialRolesGroupsMediaHavensPossibilityDialogueVisibleSpeakersSocial ChangeOrganizer Author:Gloria Steinem
“I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.” ThinkingTwoImportantChoicesSocialSecurityDrugHarmTwo ThingsSocial SecurityUrgentProhibitionEliminationParentalDrug ProhibitionVouchers Author:Milton Friedman
“My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.” WorldHumansRealityChoicesSocialHuman BeingsDealsPaperRootsScientistThirdsSickFellowsMajorityStructureUglyHungryIceMathematicalCreamSociologyPapersFlavorIce CreamThird WorldUneducatedCohesionFree ChoiceSocial Structure Author:Mario Bunge
“Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveProblemRealitySpiritualDesireChoicesIndividualGivenForceSocialHurtViewsEconomicInformationShapesJudgmentComplexesAvailablePsychologicalEthicalAccordWorld View Author:Michael Lerner
“Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.” HumansArtMatterChoicesSocialWiseInstrumentsInevitableSocial Change Author:Quentin Crisp