“Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensGuySituationGroupsMaterialsSilentSingle Women Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“We must walk according to the highest light we have, encountering lovingly those who are out of harmony, and trying to inspire them toward a better way. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the cause of peace. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.” WorldWayTryingLightIndividualCausesWalksSituationGroupsInspireHighestHarmonyInner PeaceBetter Ways Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Nothing bonds a group of people better when they are thrown into a situation where they have no idea what's going on and what's going to happen.” PeopleIdeasHappensSituationGroupsNo IdeaThrown Author:Michael Stahl-David
“It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.” PeopleIfsWorldWayHumansImportantStatesDoneEnoughChristianTurnsSocialChurchHealingSituationGroupsAreasPlantEngagedPilotsRight WayHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsPresent LifePresent Situation Author:Francis Schaeffer
“If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.” IfsWayTogetherSocialSituationGrowingGroupsExtremesGapsDisorderHaves And Have Nots Author:Ross Kemp
“A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation.” PeopleStatesStrongUnderstandingSidesSituationGroupsPositionChaosAtmosphereFrightenedStabilityFenceBoth SidesGood WillSubjugationBravado Author:Vivian Gornick
“My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.” PeopleEnoughFormYoungReadingSituationBreakCreativeGroupsHistoricalMinoritiesEmpiresRomeBreaking DownTurkeysMinority Groups Author:Timothy Leary
“We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.” MenImaginationSituationGroupsManagersImaginative Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“I just want to get my voice heard again and to allow people to know me outside of a group situation. I also want young girls who look up to me to know not to give up, even when people try and take you away from your destiny.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingTryingLooksYoungGirlVoiceSituationDestinyHeardGroupsGiving UpLook UpKnow MeNot Giving UpOur DestinyYour Destiny Author:LeToya Luckett
“The feeling of being an Iraqi unites all ethnic groups within this country. Even the Kurds, who have traditionally pushed for their own state, see the benefits of the current situation. They enjoy an autonomous status in Kurdistan, while at the same time participating in decisions in Baghdad. But if neighboring states were to push for a partition of Iraq, it would be a horrible mistake.” IfsCountryStatesFeelingsWould BeEnjoyDecisionMistakeSituationGroupsBenefitsIraqCurrentsHorribleParticipatingBaghdadAutonomousPartitionKurdsEthnic GroupsCurrent SituationHorrible Mistakes Author:Zalmay Khalilzad
“Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition” MayLittlesRunningSocialSportsGrowthDifferencesSpaceCommonRaceSituationVirtueGroupsProduceBuildingBenefitsCompetitionSpeedDrivenCooperationCompetingCivicsReciprocitySocial CapitalCivic Virtue Author:Eva Cox
“Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.” PeopleWayWantIdeasDifferentSituationGroupsApproachDifferent WaysDifferent Ideas Author:Bobby Morley
“Things economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they may wish to do-not indeed by destroying their freedom of choice but by shaping the choosing mentalities and by narrowing the list of possibilities from which to choose.” WayMayMovingCertainChoicesIndividualWishSocialSituationGroupsEconomicPossibilityListsBehaveDestroyingMentalityMomentumFreedom Of Choice Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter
“No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.” ThinkingWorldCountryTodayPresidentCan DoSituationGrowingGroupsDangerousPeriodsCurrentsCommandDevelopingDisarray Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.” PeopleIfsLooksSufferingSituationGroupsWorstInjusticeWorst Situation Author:Salma Hayek
“I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.” LittlesTogetherCoursesFeltRealizingSituationGrowing UpGrowingGroupsSeriousSceneIdealsMy FamilyStartingDemonComing OutPunk Author:Rozz Williams