“I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.” GovernmentSocialSexGoneLifetimeSpreadConsiderationHomosexualityHomosexualTabooSanctionsShort TimeHomosexual Marriage Author:John Naisbitt
“The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the city-states could vary widely. This led the Sophists to raise the question of what was natural and what was socially induced. By doing this, they paved the way for social criticism in the city-state of Athens.” MenWayDifferentStatesGovernmentFormLawSocialNaturalCitiesCriticismRaisesLocalsConventionsTraveledVaryForms Of GovernmentAthens Author:Jostein Gaarder
“The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.” GovernmentSocialEntrepreneur Author:Bill Drayton
“Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.” MenMindHas BeensBodyGovernmentLawSocialChurchEffortCenturyDivineTheoryKingsInstitutionsSlaveryAll TimeThrownMind And BodyHabitualDefendersBad GovernmentDivine RightIncorrigibleSocial TheoryBad LawsDivine Right Of Kings Author:H. L. Mencken
“The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.” MatterStatesGovernmentSocialExistenceMastersDutyCitizensCircumstancesVictimMereCharityCaringAidsServantUnfortunateAdverse Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?” YearsDoeStillsCountryProblemSeemsGovernmentAbleAmericaOpportunitySocialHundredYears AgoInequalityFiftyTragicEstablishmentShortcomingsFreedom Of ExpressionGreat CountrySocial Inequality Author:Golda Meir
“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.” PeopleMenGovernmentPoliticalIndividualSocialCausesEducationMoralRightsProveIntellectualImprovementEstablishmentAdvancementFree GovernmentDiffusion Book:Selected Writings of James Madison Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.” BelieveMaySelfReasonGovernmentAsksIndividualSocialVoiceTradeProfessionBreadFactorsChiefsReason WhyRelyStrongestIndividualismSovereigntySocial LifeBirthright Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.” CountryGovernmentAmericaCultureForceSocialNaturalStruggleEnvironmentGroupsEconomicWeakWideUnifiedNatural EnvironmentSocial GroupsWeak Government Author:Johan Huizinga
“The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.” PeopleKnowsShouldSeemsGovernmentMightYoungSocialCommunityHurtEducationPrinciplesDemocracyDangerousTheoryCivilizationEssentialsLogicDemocraticIgnorantDenialPreservationFree GovernmentDiffusionKnowledge And LearningSocial Theory Book:Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life
“Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.” BigsGovernmentLeftSocialJusticeSocial JusticeTranslateGeeseEvangelicalBig GovernmentPacifismWild Geese Author:Mark Tooley
“To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.” MeanEndsGovernmentSocialGoalJusticeTechnologyDemocracyAchieveStrongerAimSocial JusticeMeans To An End Author:Beth Simone Noveck
“I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveHardGovernmentI BelieveSocialFailingProgramInvestingI Believe InAssetsInfrastructureSocial Programs Author:Mick Cornett
“When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.” GovernmentSocialCuttingInvolvedCostEssentialsAccountsSpendingExpendituresGovernment Spending Author:Raghuram Rajan
“There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.” KindMayStatesFeelingsGovernmentFormCultureIndividualSocialExistencePressureRegardFilledThreatExtremesDistinctionInsecurityEndeavorDiscouragingMenaceFree Life Author:Richard M. Weaver
“Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.” WayShouldWellsSelfGovernmentTogetherLastsOrderSocialPoorResultsNumbersClassDangerCivilizationOrganizationElectionFellowsInternationalNobleSeparationChosenEducatedEveningOddOfficersCastesSelf-governmentLodgesSocial Organization Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is certainly no less real than its obligation to pay interest on its Treasury bonds.” BookRealGovernmentSocialTermInterestPayLibertySecurityBenefitsCurrentsLibertarianObligationFedsLibertarianismSocial SecurityPaymentTreasuryTreasury Bond Author:Laurence Kotlikoff