“What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.” PeopleWantNeedsHelpingJobsSocialMiddleAchieveSafetyIncomeVulnerableAccomplishmentGenerousOur SocietySafety Net Author:Joe Kyrillos
“We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of themmost people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulationthey are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.” PeopleThinkingWayWantHas BeensSocialEnvironmentVoteSacredMajorityPatternsWork OutOur SocietyManipulationCowsWishful ThinkingSacred CowsSocial Environment Author:David Gerrold
“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.” PeopleWorldFirstsBelieveKindSeemsOrderSocialAcceptingPovertyMillionsImpossiblePositionSucceedDemandMiseryOur SocietyRebellionContemplatingIntolerancePassiveTrapsRise AboveSocial SystemsOrder To SucceedRise Above It Author:Michael Korda
“The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.” MeanIndividualForceSocialTechnologyGreaterMaterialsIntellectualStandardsBasesTerrorContemporaryConquerOur SocietyOverwhelmingCapabilityEfficiencyDominationScopeStandards Of LivingContemporary Society Author:Herbert Marcuse
“Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.” WorldPhilosophyPoliticalBeliefSocialConditionsPossibilityLimitsOur SocietyPolitical PhilosophyReconcileUtopianHope For The FutureSocial Conditions Book:The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited Source: The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited
“History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick” IfsTodaySocialProcessSickFundamentalsEtcOur SocietyAbandonSociologyAnthropologySocial ScienceAllergicProcess Of Change Author:Edward Hallett Carr
“You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldKindLittlesDoeEnoughUsePurposeSocialExistenceHalfAliveTroubleThis WorldBenefitsOrganizationWeightBoatOur SocietyJustifyBe KindDozenPulling Author:George Bernard Shaw
“There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.” IfsWayReasonCareSocialRolesOur LivesUnderstoodAdvantageFundamentalsOur SocietySocial Network Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, which prints them in the flesh and in particular in women's flesh.” BodyPoliticalSocialReligiousParticularPressureFleshOur SocietyPrint Author:Orlan
“Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.” PeopleTogetherSocialCommunityHarderOur SocietyConsumptionDominantSocial Relationships Author:Juliet B. Schor
“In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theorists. In economic theory, especially, the subject is almost completely ignored. This is not, I think, because economists regard mankind as basically selfish or even because economic man is supposed to act only in his self-interest; it is rather because economics has essentially grown up around the phenomenon of exchange and its theoretical structure rests heavily on this process.” ThinkingMenLittlesHas BeensSelfGivenSocialProcessInterestViewsAttentionEconomicSubjectsMankindTheoryEconomicsImportanceRegardStructureSelfishOur SocietyPhenomenonSurprisingPhilanthropyIgnoredEconomistTheoreticalSelf InterestTheoristsEconomic Theory Author:Kenneth E. Boulding