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“It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.”

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.”

“The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed”

Men Feelings Social Conditions Depends Lust Occasions Conventions Accustomed Frequency

Book:Marriage and Morals

Source: Marriage and Morals

“Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one.”

Kind Art Artist Certain Order Social Painting Depends Succeed Painful Friendly Composer Insecure Sociability Order To Succeed

Book:The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

“A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.”

Values Social Greater Greatness Depends Amount Mass Labor Productions Substance Relative Commodity Relative Value

Book:Value, Price and Profit

Source: Value, Price and Profit

“The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.”

Social Expression Personality Depends Privilege Prestige

Book:Letter to a Priest

Source: Letter to a Priest

“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

Needs Values Given Social Quality Groups Depends Habit Members Aim Social Life Socialization

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.”

Reason Law Social Progress Depends Habit Instinct Guidance Remove Assurance Social Progress

Author:Emily Blackwell

“We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?”

“Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.”

Happiness Social Depends Hypocrisy Stoops

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.”

Philosophy Social Decision Economic Depends Court

Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.”

Ifs Men Writing Humans Character Fall Social Comedy Groups Worst Depends Ego Behavior Tragedy Impulse One Man Versus Foe Wire Pits Social Life Massage

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.”

Men Should Ends Social Depends Degradation Maintenance Discord

Author:Anandi Gopal Joshi

“The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.”

“All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.”

Men Social Progress Duty Depends Neighbor Stability Reliance Social Life

Book:Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons

Source: Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons