“The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.” NeedsFallSocialPresidentDoubtSkySecurityClaimsBrokeNo DoubtSocial SecurityMislead Author:Grace Napolitano
“I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through.” PeopleDoePlayStoriesSocialMusicDoubtMastersSkillsMusicianInstrumentsJazzAfrican AmericanDramaticSignificanceJazz MusicDescentJazz MusicianAfrican Music Author:Max Roach
“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.” SelfCareTodaySpiritualYoungCertainSocialCompassionDoubtFiveModernChildhoodEffectsDisciplineCivilizationSkillsDiseaseTraditionMethodDuesNo DoubtTemplesSurroundDeclineProtectedInitiativeInherentSelf DisciplinePresent DayPoisonousAvailabilityEarly ChildhoodCraftsmanshipStimulantsSpiritual Death Author:Kurt Hahn
“Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.” ThinkingKindLongHas BeensForceSocialEffortDemocracyDoubtDoorsWindHugeLateLong TimeUnionsArguingToo LateCracksSovietScholarSoviet UnionCould Have BeenUnleashedGorbachevSocial Democracy Author:David Hoffman
“Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.” Life IsSocialImaginationDoubtSolitudeFilledVainSocial LifeWearinessEnnui Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to the hard work that has made them possible. But in the face of threats to humanitys future on the one hand and the extraordinary potential of mankind on the other, at some point we must ask: are we capable of more?” MeanMadeHardHandsFacesAsksGamesSocialDoubtMankindHard WorkCapableThreatExtraordinaryDelightDisrespect Author:Justin Rosenstein
“I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.” ThinkingPoliticalSocialProcessDoubtMediaDemandNewsConstantSocial MediaNo DoubtAdventNews Channels Author:Tony Abbott
“Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.” FactsSocialLinesDoubtCivilizationMarkDogmaConstructiveAdvancingQuestion Mark Book:Law and the Modern Mind Source: Law and the Modern Mind
“There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.” MenWellsMayLittlesFactsAblePastSocialDoubtDependsExerciseSocial LifeGreatest Success Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.” WorldWayShouldIdeasEnoughAgeEvilSocialSoundReligiousOpinionDoubtEffectsIntellectualBlameNotionAccomplishCuriousNo DoubtConventionsVeilsTheologianDecencySanctitySlownessLibertine Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Be skeptical, but not as a social position, not claiming to be so intelligent that you cannot believe what other people say. It's not about being right and making everybody else wrong. No, you are skeptical because you know without a doubt that everybody lives in their own story, and in their story they have their own truth. But it's only truth in their mind, just as your truth is only truth in your mind, and nobody else's.” PeopleKnowsMindBelieveStoriesSocialDoubtPositionTruth IsIntelligentSkeptical Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“It is certainly true that conservative Christians are much more likely to doubt the reality of climate change than mainline Christians or the unaffiliated. But when we control for political affiliation and for the important role of thought leaders in determining our opinions on social issues such as climate change, most of the faith-related bias disappears.” ImportantRealityChristianPoliticalSocialLeaderOpinionRolesIssuesDoubtClimateClimate ChangeConservativeDisappearRelatedBiasSocial IssuesAffiliation Author:Katharine Hayhoe