“We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.” SocialLike YouBecomingSlaveWinnerBad ThingsSocial NetworkYour FavoriteThings You Like Author:Max Levchin
“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.” PeopleNeedsHumansSocialJusticeBehindsCasesEconomicMovementBecomingCivilizationConflictEssentialsSocial JusticeMental HealthEnvironmentalLeavingFavorsSustainabilityStableVersusProsperousJoiningHuman CivilizationEnvironmental Health Author:Edward Norton
“If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant self of the pride sort, since by the very process of gaining independence and immunity from the stings of depreciation and misunderstanding, he has perhaps lost that wholesome deference to some social tribunal that a man cannot dispense with and remain quite sane.” IfsMenSelfRunningLostSocialProcessOpinionDangerHe ManPrideBecomingSucceedIndependenceNeighborSaneIndifferentMisunderstandingExtravagantImmunityDeferenceTribunalsDepreciation Book:Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.” SpiritualPoliticalSocialRealizingEconomicBecomingBalanceDeterminationRealizationCultivatingRegenerationResurgenceSpiritual Balance Author:Nnamdi Azikiwe
“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?'” ImportantValuesAsksSocialEnvironmentHappenedBecomingDrivenCrowdedPersonal RelationshipsForlornSocial Environment Author:Desmond Morris
“As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)” IfsWayMomentsBigsTurnsSocialBecomingDirectAimDisasterIntenseSevereSocial LifeBecoming MoreAntagonismNew Directions Author:African Spir
“Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.” MayReasonLawOrderIndividualSocialWealthPovertyBecomingIncreaseProductionsMiserableCapitalistInexorable Book:The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies Source: The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies
“Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.” PeopleSometimesFormIndividualNationsSocialPowerfulAtheismExpressionBecomingTemplesAltarsUnbeliefPriesthood Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.” WholeStoriesSocialDealsCuttingBecomingBehaviorStandardsCapacityInstitutionsGood ThingsAbsenceHungryCivilizedApprovalGrandparentOur LoveGrandchildrenFlexibleOpen MindedBecoming MoreSocial InstitutionsCivilized Behavior Author:Eda LeShan