“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration” MenFirstsMeanLongImportantEndsReasonGovernmentLife IsIndividualSocialViewsKnownPrinciplesWiseMankindSecurityOughtBlessingHighestWeaknessInstitutionsObservationGenerousHatsPatrioticFoundersInquirySocial LifeVeneration Author:Joseph Warren
“Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.” KnowsMenLooksStatesLightThreeSocialCausesDestinyEconomicStrangeHundredDirectRelationAffairJewRaysContinentsObscuritySuccessorsRays Of Light Author:Walther Rathenau
“There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.” PeopleMenStillsSocialStreetsMen And WomenCurrentsCrowdsQuartersSparesOutlookInputOutlook On Life Author:Abbey Lincoln
“The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.” MenLittlesHas BeensSaidFactsEyeSocialAchievementBlindRelateAspirationGreat Men Author:James Loeb
“If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.” IfsKnowsMenLongProblemGuySocialNiceSecurityHe ManOur FamilyUnemploymentSocial SecurityCharlieMedicareNice GuyMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Charles Rangel
“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.” MenMindHumansWellsKindEndsReasonPoliticalPurposeValuesIndividualSocialTermImaginationIssuesTroubleHe ManHabitMen And WomenTasksScientistDemocraticIndividualitySecureVarietyExposedDisplayTranslateEducatorDemocratic SocietySociologicalHabits Of Mind Book:The Sociological Imagination Source: The Sociological Imagination
“The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.” MenStatesSocialChallengesUnitedRolesUnited StatesCenturyCreationFatherhood20th CenturyUrgentSocial Roles Author:David Blankenhorn
“If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.” IfsMenWayTwoFallWishSocialPressureDramaticEmpiresRoman EmpireSlipperySlopesSlippery SlopeSocial Pressure Author:Benjamin Carson
“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.” MenHumansWellsBeautifulGivenSocialProcessResultsBeautyHuman NatureUglyFixedInclination Book:Escape from Freedom Source: Escape from Freedom
“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.” MenSocialProcessHistoryModernMassProductionsEqualityCommodityEquality Of PeopleArt Of LovingMass ProductionSocial EqualityEquality Of ManStandardization Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.” MenSpiritualSocialPrinciplesConscienceConfusionPerversion Author:Nikolai Berdyaev