“The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.” WayUsedThreeHouseSocialProcessCommunityGenerationsLondonFamiliarUsed To BeLandscapeBuyingColonyAssimilationIdentifyingRestoringThree Generations Author:Peter York
“When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for the Democrats, Social Security would never have passed, and our older people would not have this great support that our people provide. It has been my experience that Democrats generally vote to protect the people, while Republicans seem to try to protect the interests of big business.” PeopleTryingHas BeensBigsSeemsPoliticalHousePoliticsSocialInterestSupportSecurityRepublicanProtectConceptsVoteDemocratSocial SecurityBig BusinessOlder People Author:Sam Rayburn
“The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.” PeopleEndsBigsHouseForceSocialSidesWealthWorstEffectsVictimAssociationSide EffectsSocializingBig Houses Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill unanimously. Every single member of both parties voted for it. What was it? To deny Social Security benefits to Nazis. So from now on, no SS for the SS.” HouseSocialPartySecurityMembersBenefitsBillsDenyNaziSocial Security Author:Craig Ferguson
“One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house can be much more than a building. It is the social context of his family life -\-\ the place where he loves and shares with this closest to him.” MenHouseSocialShareBuildingElementsRainConcernProtectionClosestFamily Life Author:Pedro Arrupe
“Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.” GivingSoulPainSpiritHouseSocialAbilityPartyCareersPlansGayElementsInfiniteHeavyAtomsSaltRidingAmusementStirringPicnicsBanquetsAiryCharadesCoquette Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. [...] And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsYearsLittlesHas BeensDoneLyingNextHouseSocialEasyCostPercentToolsIncomeIdiotProvenNext YearMortgageHouse Prices Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.” IfsAmericaArtistOrderCultureHouseSocialPoorSafeStudiosArtisticNeighborhoodParadoxCracksIntegrationSegregationVigorousIntriguingColonySocial OrderBohemianSafe PlacesRacial Segregation Author:Florence King
“Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics: what was intended to be a mere porch to ethics is either the whole house or nothing at all. In so laying down its life welfare economics may be able to contribute some of its insights and analytical methods to a much broader evaluative analysis of the whole social process.” MayWholeSeemsAbleHouseSocialProcessEthicsEconomicsMethodMereInsightWelfareAnalysisExpansionVergeSocial SciencePorchLaying Down Author:Kenneth E. Boulding