Best social & causes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.”

Social Causes Security Accounts Investment Workers Uncertainty Investors Earning Social Security Erode Security Systems

Author:Grace Napolitano

“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.”

Knows Men Looks States Light Three Social Causes Destiny Economic Strange Hundred Direct Relation Affair Jew Rays Continents Obscurity Successors Rays Of Light

Author:Walther Rathenau

“If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.”

Ifs Thinking Two Enough Use Social Causes Church Security Percent Foundation Charity Checks Wealthy Social Security Tanks Your Favorite Good Causes Synagogue

Author:Mark Skousen

“We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.”

Humans Social Causes Audience Issues Generations Connections Charity Environmental Campaigns Brands Theme Components Integrating Charitable Environmental Issues Generation Y

Author:Amy Jo Martin

“If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.”

Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights

“If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.”

Ifs Enough Political Social Causes Attitude Effects Balance Intellectual Trade Credit Positive Attitude Sheets Reparations

Book:God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas

Source: God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas

“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .”

Ifs Looks Reason Past Social Causes Results Race Behinds Class Psychology Perspective Economics Prejudice Victim Gender Accidents No Reason Upbringing Cosmology Sociological

Author:James Hillman

“The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.”

World Universe Social Causes Patterns Nonsense Distress Unlikely Attempting Dukes Spinsters

Author:Gail Carriger

“Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.”

Done Action Social Causes Justice Virtue Movement Internals Things Done

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.”

Doe Moving Certain Social Causes Levels Class Journey Degrees Distance Scales Enormous Colour Unexpected Transport Flavour

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.”

“Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.”

Source: Essays in Social Justice

“Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.”

Self Lost Social Causes Economic Conflict Analysis Serving Self Serving

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.”

Social Causes Injustice Determined Privileged Social Injustice

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor would any major war in which Britain was involved after this date end in defeat. Those who are curious about this country's peculiar social and political stability probably need look no further than this for essential cause.”

Needs Looks War Ends Country Political Social Causes Gone Stage Involved Essentials Majors Unions Defeat Curious Britain Stability Peculiar British History

Author:Linda Colley

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”

“Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”

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Book:A Matter of Life and Death

Source: A Matter of Life and Death

“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.”

“If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.”

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Author:Ronald Fisher

“Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.”

Law Order Nations Social Causes Loss Rights Independence Soldier Empires Thrones Cowardly Social Order Magistrates

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.”

“Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.”

Pain Social Causes Emotional Rejection Emotional Pain

Book:Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

Source: Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

“Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.”

Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

“Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.”

Humans Social Causes Human Beings Our Lives Effects Creatures Accidents Cause And Effect Sociability

Book:Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together

Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together

“To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.”

“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.”

Source: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict

“The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.”

Knows Kind Done Humanity Social Causes Christ Can Do Atheism Ignorance Misery Workers Positive Atheism Followers Submission Meek

Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”

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Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Why is it that the Rev. Jesse Jackson can quote the Bible in support of his pet causes, but conservative ministers and lay people must argue purely on secular grounds for their social and political agenda?... It seems that mixing religion and politics is acceptable as long as the road turns to the left.”

“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”

Giving Should May Able Social Causes Interest Responsibility Reform Philanthropy Spares Social Responsibility Margins Undertakings Philanthropic Agitation Public Interest

Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.”

Evil Social Causes Class Policy Racism Weak Injustice African American Fixed Persecution Contagious Hurtful Defenseless African American Women Social Evils

Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.”

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