“Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.” IfsSocialSidesFailingBehaviourAntisocial Author:Alfred Adler
“The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.” PoliticalOpportunitySocialWealthJusticeResultsFailingEconomicProduceActivitySocial JusticeCorruptionPlanningSuperiorsAdministrationMeritAgendasManifestIncompetenceDependencySusceptibleMaximizingAllocationFavoritism Author:George Will
“Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.” RealFeelingsArtistSocialFailingDemandAchievementCreatorArtisticHeightConformDestinedTailored Author:Semir Zeki
“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.” SelfAgeIndividualSocialResultsEffortSituationFailingPrideMoralityDemandAdjustmentIndividual Morality Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.” MenMotherSocialFailingOffersApproachPrisonCriminalsWalletsSocial Service Author:Warren Farrell
“we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.” ShouldBelieveAmericaValuesLeftSocialCausesBehindsMoralClassCasesFailingConversationConsequenceTraditionalInequalityRisingRejectsCrucialWorking ClassSoarSocial ChangeLeft BehindTraditional Values Author:Paul Krugman
“There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.” GovernmentLawSocialFailingConditionsEssentialsTasksInstituteAccountingRegisterDivergenceLaws And Government Book:A Theory of Justice Source: A Theory of Justice
“The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.” PeopleKnowsSeemsSocialEffortFailingHonestSkillsUnusualRationalitySocial Skills Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.” SocialChurchFailingFullness Author:Martin Luther
“The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.” ThinkingNeedsPastSocialCuttingFailingMediaTraditionSocial MediaOnlineClothingsFabricJewelsLearn From The Past Author:Giuseppe Zanotti
“Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.” StillsWisdomLife IsFoundIndividualSocialFailingCenturyTruth IsCapitalismKingdomsTraditionalEnterpriseCollectivesMarxismKingdom Of GodReconcileNineteenth CenturyThesisSynthesisAntithesisPartial Truth Book:The Radical King Source: The Radical King
“The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.” SometimesHelpingSocialGrowthAbilityLevelsCompanyFailingInfluenceParticularHabitSucceedShotsIdealsTrialsWeatherPursueAgencyReach OutContributingThose We LoveHopefulnessTandem Author:Patrick Shade
“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.” IfsChildrenValuesSocialResponsibilityGoneFailingGroupsReturnAdultsDevelopingConsiderationConformityAllowingPeersSocial ResponsibilityAutonomyConstructivePeer GroupConsideration For OthersDiminishing Returns Book:2 Wrlds Childhood Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood
“I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveHardGovernmentI BelieveSocialFailingProgramInvestingI Believe InAssetsInfrastructureSocial Programs Author:Mick Cornett
“We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy into one that is environmentally sustainable, future generations will be overwhelmed by environmental degradation and social disintegration. Simply stated, if our generation does not turn things around, our children may not have the option of doing so.” IfsKnowsMayChildrenDoeSelfTurnsSocialKnow HowEconomyFailingGenerationsOur ChildrenEnvironmentalSustainabilityOverwhelmedFuture GenerationDegradationOur GenerationDisintegrationEnvironmental Degradation Author:Lester R. Brown
“We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away from some of the most common, obvious pitfalls of neoliberal social movement strategies.” TryingMovingSocialCommonFailingMovementCommitmentStrategyObviousExperimentsVulnerableReformCritiqueTry AgainPitfallsSocial Movements Author:Dean Spade
“For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.” GivingShouldPersonsMatterProblemSocialCausesTechnologyFailingLonelinessCommunicationAreasConcernIncreaseDecadesIsolationHouseholdIdentificationSingle PersonPersonal RelationshipsSocial Problems Author:Cory Bernardi
“In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.” ThinkingWayPersonsCountryBigsKidsJobsSocialDifferencesFailingGenerationsPicksIncludingIdeologySavingOther CountriesMagnificentNormSocial NormsFreedom To Choose Author:Dan Ariely
“Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.” HumansGovernmentSocialSoundLibertyEconomyFailingProduceOppositesRelationEmbracePropertyInternationalFavorsPlanningPeacefulOutcomesDestructiveProductiveStableInterventionInternational RelationsOpposingPrivate PropertyTotalityMarket EconomySocial SystemsGovernment Intervention Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.” ThinkingShouldBigsSocialPartyFailingStreetsSecurityWallDemocraticPrioritiesConventionsPlatformsMinimumSocial SecurityExpandingDemocratic PartyMinimum Wage Author:Ben Wikler
“With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.” HardNightGamesFunSocialSportsEffortFailingInvolvedDiscoveryFinishedCoreDespiteHaving FunHardshipSocial WorkNoveltyWorking Very Hard Author:Ian Bogost