“One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.” PeopleTogetherSocialModernLosingHappeningsDestructiveNightmareCollapseModern Society Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.” ThinkingWayKidsUsedSocialHappeningsComplainingUsed To BeSocial Work Author:Diplo
“What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.” NeedsStatesOrderSocialPlanetsRight NowApproachHappeningsOrganizationWake UpClimateClimate ChangeEnergeticWake Up CallHead Of StateSocial Organization Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsEarthSocialProcessWaterJusticeAirEconomicMovementHappeningsSocial JusticeCommittedSavingGlobalizationVery PositiveEconomic JusticeWorld Bank Author:Assata Shakur
“Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.” SocialHappeningsStandingBases Author:Kabir Sehgal
“Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.” BigsTodaySocialHappeningsFoundationCloudsDataMobileGamingData Science Author:Chris Lynch
“What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.” WorldStatesTodayLawPoliticalSocialProcessRealizingHealingClearHappenedDiseaseHappeningsDecadesMedicalPrimariesWarfareLocksSymptomsParadigmWorld TodayPolitics Today Author:Marianne Williamson
“It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.” RealPastSocialTasteHappeningsTragedyCommentCensorshipBlastBad TasteSomething Real Author:Margaret Cho
“I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.” WorldNeedsFeelsLooksKindDifferentRealStoriesBigsMightForceSocialSuccessfulJourneyEmotionalHappeningsInjusticeIntimacyFormulasRelevantOperaDifferent TimesSocial Injustice Author:Jake Heggie
“There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't defined by being just one thing or perceived in a single way. Today we hear people's voices, thanks to social media, and that can change things. This change is happening right now!” PeopleWayTodaySocialVoiceOne ThingMediaIndustryRight NowHappeningsSocial MediaThanksDefinedDesignerJust One Author:Maria Borges
“Everything also calms down with the influx of social media, there's so much happening all the time.” SocialMediaHappeningsCalmSocial MediaCalm Down Author:Kate Walsh
“The `50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the `60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.” WayRememberSocialStuffHappeningsBoringAidsNuclearBombsNuclear Bomb Author:Robert Klein
“There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.” PeopleSeemsCareSocialResponsibilityHappeningsTake CareVulnerableDecentSensibleSocial Responsibility Author:Noam Chomsky
“The main thing is that people see constant reports of break-ins on, on record systems and stolen financial data and social security records and so they'd think about you know what's going to prevent that happening with my medical records. And interestingly enough, patients are less worried about that than their doctors are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsEnoughSocialBreakRecordsSecurityHappeningsDoctorsConstantPatientFinancialMedicalDataWorriedReportsSocial SecurityStolenMedical Records Author:William Davis
“If you're not broadcasting what people feel is their truth as it relates to you, well that becomes a problem. If your not broadcasting how much you love your boyfriend or husband via social media, problems occur in the home and I really think this is happening more than we acknowledge.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWellsProblemHomeSocialLove YouMediaHusbandHappeningsSocial MediaRelateAcknowledgeBroadcastingYour Boyfriend Author:Aeriel Miranda
“There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.” WayDifferentSocialBrainConditionsRight NowHappeningsExcitingPressureIllnessThings HappenExciting ThingsSocial ConditionsNeurobiologySocial Pressure Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl
“When you see what is happening with the social network, with Facebook, Twitter and co it is becoming obvious that the reputation of ourselves is becoming more and more important everyday. Image is becoming too much for me, and we are living in a virtual world and sometimes it is very easy to make mistakes. It is more difficult to take responsibility for our mistakes.” WorldImportantSometimesSocialEasyDifficultMistakeResponsibilityToo MuchBecomingHappeningsEverydayObviousReputationMaking MistakesTaking ResponsibilityBecoming MoreSocial NetworkVirtual World Author:Emmanuel Petit
“The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's a time of change and transition and, as I see it, we are entering a new state of consciousness. It's a transition between one state of consciousness and another. It's an evolutionary leap that is happening.” StatesProblemPoliticalSocialConsciousnessEconomicPlanetsGoes OnHappeningsEnvironmentalListsLeapTransitionEnteringStates Of ConsciousnessUpheavalMultiplying Author:Eckhart Tolle
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles
“I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version of what's happening here?" I start to feel, "How can I use [or "claim"] this?".” FeelsTryingMomentsUseFeelingsFoundSocialMediaPerceptionHappeningsClaimsSocial MediaActiveVersions Author:George Saunders
“The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.” WayBelieveKindHas BeensImportantBigsMightMovingSocialTalkingFeminismMovementHappeningsHarderWaveSocial MovementsAmericana Author:Dar Williams
“There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.” PeopleWayWantBigsEyeSocialCausesTechnologyCommunicationHappeningsBuiltHarmReactionsThreatenedScenariosSurgeonsArteries Author:Howard Rheingold
“I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have been running the countries for years. They are severely declining. You can see it in voting; you can see it also in popular attitudes: contempt for what are called "the élites," the experts, the people in charge.” PeopleThinkingYearsHas BeensCountryRunningSocialAttitudeHappeningsDemocratConservativeExpertsVotingContemptCollapseCoalitions Author:Noam Chomsky
“James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.” IfsWorldWholeSocialHalfClassCenturyIdentityHappeningsDignityCriticsWesternBrilliantInevitableUncertaintyTensionAssumptionDistinctionDestructiveTrendsYearningMaintainingTwentieth CenturyUnspokenWestern WorldAmerican WriterHumanisticIntricacyPersonal IdentityWestern SocietyClass Distinction Author:Raoul Peck
“I am 32-years-old, and diversity is working for me. I see a lot of change. You can't deny the revolution that is happening about body sizes. With social media and everything, everyone can get their voice out more. It puts a lot of pressure on the industry to do, give more spaces to different ethnicities or ages or sizes. I do feel like the change is happening. It might have just started, but I believe it's not going to end. It's just the beginning.” GivingFeelsYearsBelieveDifferentEndsBodyMightAgeI BelieveSocialVoiceSpaceMediaRevolutionIndustryDiversityHappeningsPressureSizeSocial MediaDenyEthnicity Author:Bianca Balti
“Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.” WayShouldWellsAmericaPoliticalSpeakSocialVoiceCommunityIssuesPolicyInvolvedRacismHappeningsRaisesInstitutionsIslamInternationalConnectedDiscriminationRelatedTortureIllegalSolitarySpeaks OutAmerican SocietyConfinementMonitoringGuantanamoPolitical IssuesSolitary ConfinementGuantanamo BayAmerican LeadershipDomestic Policy Author:Tariq Ramadan
“When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything.” ThinkingWorldWayKindArtI CanHelpingSongTurnsSocialRoomsRecordsMediaInspirePaintingRight NowMountainHappeningsPaintPhonesSocial MediaHelp MeTurn Off Author:Willow Smith
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” PeopleWayGivingMeanStatesHappensIndividualSocialFictionImagineSocietyModernConditionsSubjectsEffectsDrugDepressionHappeningsScience FictionToleranceTerroristUnhappyInternalsRemoveUnhappinessIntoleranceTolerateDepressingMathematicianAnarchistNot HappyModern SocietySocial ConditionsUnhappy PeopleAntidepressantsModifying Author:Theodore Kaczynski