Best Social Environment Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's a moment in the buddleia's lifecycle, purple flowers blooming, cabbage white butterflies flitting, when it's beautiful and triumphant, sprouting out of the broken wall without an ounce of earth to flourish in. That's what we humans have to do, I think whenever I see it, keep blooming despite the barren circumstances we sometimes find ourselves in. After a few weeks the buddleia becomes a weed again, , with grime-splattered leaves and crispy brown flowers that never fall off. You can only fight so hard, and for so long, before your environment engulfs you.”

Environment Social Environment Keep Fighting Breaking Point Influence Of Others Fight For Your Dreams Fight For Yourself

Book:To Throw Away Unopened

Source: To Throw Away Unopened

“Your connection with any ethnic group should be determined by social factors, such as your attitude to the widespread patterns of behavior and style of thinking in this group. If you feel strange in this social environment, it means that you cannot belong to it. Therefore, national identity should be a rational choice made by you in your adult life and cannot be automatically identified at birth.”

National Identity Social Environment Rational Choice

Author:Elmar Hussein

“[A] society that is free to worry about seemingly minor social faux pas or unwanted ideas and attitudes is one in which most of its members are probably not experiencing any directly life-threatening circumstances.”

Progress Human Behavior Social Psychology Social Environment

Book:Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Source: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

“The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.”

“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.”

“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”

“We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of themmost people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulationthey are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.”

People Thinking Way Want Has Beens Social Environment Vote Sacred Majority Patterns Work Out Our Society Manipulation Cows Wishful Thinking Sacred Cows Social Environment

Author:David Gerrold

“In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'”

Important Values Asks Social Environment Happened Becoming Driven Crowded Personal Relationships Forlorn Social Environment

Author:Desmond Morris

“Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.”

Mind Whole Seems Force Social Environment Filled Social Environment

Author:Emile Durkheim

“There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.”

Should Children Doe Social Environment Speech Social Environment

Author:Maria Montessori

“In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.”

Humans May Different Individual Social Simple Environment Human Nature Development Behavior Aspect Originals Dues Our Society Contrast Nevertheless Homogeneous Social Environment

Book:Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

Source: Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

“Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.”

Source: Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of America

“The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.”

Humans Self Use Values Social Roles Environment Relation Bounds Humankind Inner Life Human Relations Interpersonal Social Environment

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”

Two Hands Dies Individual Social Community Environment Evolution Essentials Factors Impulse Interaction Initiative Rejecting Adopting Social Environment

Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.”

Heart Soul Country Home Social Environment Tradition Evolve Heart And Soul Social Environment

Author:George Blake

“When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Littles Might Wanted Social Grows Growing Up Environment Growing Perspective Fit Connected Outsiders Objectivity Social Environment

Author:Moby

“When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.”

Might Social Space Attention Environment Fans Married Female Clubs Bars Unwanted Social Environment

Author:Simon Bird

“Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.”

Knows Home Today Past Political Social Sin Environment Changed Accounts Drunk Chickens Coming Home Prime Boxers Social Environment Roost Times Are Changing

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”

Nature Environment Command Ecology Conservation Our Environment Mother Earth Natural Environment Obeying Nature And Environment Save Mother Earth Nature Conservation World Environment Save The Environment Save Nature Saving The Earth Social Environment Changing Environment

Author:Francis Bacon

“So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can really teach us. The attempts we make to work through problems by reasoning always presuppose starting points, and even the most self-critical philosophers adopt some of those starting points simply by picking them up from the social environments in which they grow up.”

Giving Self Philosophy Problem Social Grows Teach Growing Up Environment Accounts Starting Philosopher Critical Reasoning Crude Starting Point Social Environment

Author:Philip Kitcher

“A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.”

Doe Social Can Do Environment Depends Activity Demand Expectations Approval Condemnation Social Environment

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.”

School Opportunity Individual Social Born Environment Groups Balance Office Elements Various Contact Limitation Social Groups Social Environment

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.”

School Individual Social Environment Influence Function Various Diverse Disposition Social Environment Coordinating

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.”

People Mind Important Social Brain Environment Impact Gateways Social Environment

Author:Michael Marmot

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

“Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself---what's the expression---ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.”

Humans War Enough Problem Force Social Environment Economic Changed Particular Expression Type Development Periods Conflict Series Variety Bangs Human Development Social Environment

Author:Isaac Asimov

“So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind. Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)”

“To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.”

“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.”

“Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys”

Needs Humans Children Problem Social Human Beings Boys Environment Defective Extended Family Undisciplined Social Environment Problem Child

Book:The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men

Source: The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men

“The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the physical, cultural, spiritual and social environments, which supported children, young people, families and the aged.”

People Children Dream Spiritual Young Social Community Environment Special Concepts Significance Aboriginal Social Environment

Author:Ken Wyatt

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

People Inspirational Social Opinion Environment Capable Prejudice Atheist Ballet Incapable Life And Love Equanimity Mind Opening Opening Your Mind Social Environment Forming Opinions

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.”

Social Grows Brain Environment Social Environment Social Being

Author:Eric Jensen

“Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.”

Needs Culture Social Causes Environment Bears Findings Cells Biology Resemblance Dissolution Nutrients Social Environment

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.”

Art Political Life Is Social Sound Roles Environment Morality Demand Built Cosmic Organs Exhaustion Social Environment

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.”

Knows Men Children Two Real Social Environment Lead In Generic Social Environment Children Of Men

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.”

Social Chance Acting Environment Influence Childhood Effects Health Circumstances Disease Adults Rate Height Mortality Adulthood Social Environment

Author:Michael Marmot