“And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.” WorldGovernmentSocialPerfectPoorRichGrowingMiddleProfitStormThese DaysGapsAnxiousRich And PoorSocial ServiceNon ProfitBeing BadPerfect Storm Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.” PeopleDoeDifferentMatterCoursesSocialPerfectCommonDemocracySharePositionCitizensOrdinaryBackgroundsEncountersWhat MattersBumpsOrdinary LifeDifferent BackgroundsCommon Life Author:Michael Sandel
“Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.” KnowsDoneLyingSocialPerfectMassOrganizationRoundsWheelsHospitalsExesJointsPsychiatricPsychiatric Hospitals Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.” WorldEndsSocialSidesTermPrayerPerfectPoorRichFiveMankindEffectsHealthyMoonMassFoundationLaysIslamSignalsEmphasisGatheringMosquesNew MoonMuslim WorldLocalityCrescentSocial Relationships Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.” MayMatterReasonDesirePassionSocialJusticePerfectImportanceInjusticeDeterminedSupremeFancyLastingRelativeConstructionFabricUnjustMomentarySubordinationContinuance Book:The Family: An Historical and Social Study Source: The Family: An Historical and Social Study
“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.” MayMadeCountryPoliticalStrongSocialPerfectRightsProgressEconomicSeriousAreasEnormousCardsInstanceReportsImplementationLagPolitical RightsReport Cards Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.” ShouldWellsStillsSocialPerfectDemocracyShareHealthyFairsSocialismCommunismFedsHogFair ShareSocial Democracy Author:George Bernard Shaw