“Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.” PeopleThinkingWayMightFilmForceSocialAudienceInfluenceApproachExposedFeedingDesirableCommentaryInfluencing PeopleSoapbox Author:Walter Koenig
“By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.” PeopleArtCharacterSocialPleasureFictionAudiencePaintingApproachMajorityCrowdsNarrativeVisualsPlotMelodyElitesRhymeFavourSculptureMeterExcludedElitismEdification Author:Steven Pinker
“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
“Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.” MenMindInspirationHumanitySocialPleasureCommonFieldsDutyDevelopmentCivilizationActivityConversationApproachIntelligentDebtRationalEnjoymentLinksDisplayFinestAdequateExquisiteSolaceAmenities Author:Agnes Repplier
“The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them.” IfsThinkingMadeSometimesShowsProblemSeemsFormBeliefSocialReadyNeededApproachMethodCookingSolveTechniqueSubstanceApplicationUnlimitedRecipesProceduresScientific MethodImitatingSocial ProblemsUnlimited Power Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in.” IdeasWarBigsGovernmentOpportunitySocialCausesPresidentResultsPovertyFiveEconomicApproachDollarsComplexesEducationalDecadesInequalityContinuingJohnsonStaleBig GovernmentWar On PovertyPresident Johnson Author:Marco Rubio
“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
“The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.” MenGivingDoeFormEvilSocialBirthEternalApproachFellowsInjusticeInequalityCommunismExploitationTravelerSocial InjusticeFellow Travelers Author:Alexander Zinoviev
“Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.” SocialJusticeVirtueMankindGratitudeApproachApprehension Author:Samuel Parr
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.” FeelsDoeSchoolForceSocialParentDifficultCommunityClassEnvironmentDemandApproachNegativeInstitutionsStructureContactAliensAgencyMinoritiesOverwhelmingEntitledDominantNormHostileInitialsDisagreementNegotiatingSocial ServiceLower Class Author:Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot