“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.” YearsChildrenDifferentWantedMotherSocialGeniusYears AgoDoctorsBottomLawyerScalesCooksThirtyArchitect Author:Jacques Pepin
“I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.” PersonsMadeSchoolSufferingFunSocialDegreesAverageScalesLabelsArrowsSlings And ArrowsBeing Made Fun Author:Jim Parsons
“I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.” ThinkingSocialProgramDemocratScalesBunchNutsLarge ScaleSocial Programs Author:Donna Shalala
“We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The end of it all is vexation of spirit.” EndsTodaySpiritSocialTypeScalesLuxuryDevelopingConsumerismOverconsumptionVexation Author:Walter Weyl
“Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.” WayPoliticalSocialGrowthBreakEconomicPeriodsCapitalismScalesSocialismExpansionEconomic GrowthIdeologicalFetters Author:Earl Browder
“Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.” DoeMovingCertainSocialCausesLevelsClassJourneyDegreesDistanceScalesEnormousColourUnexpectedTransportFlavour Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.” WellsLyingSocialClassModernIntellectualGloryConcernWestScalesWell BeingConsistentPrivilegedHistoricModern Times Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.” WorldWarHumanitySocialEconomicColdCrisisPopulationScalesErasPostsCold WarRapidsUnprecedentedWorld Population Author:Michel Chossudovsky
“If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.” IfsWayEarthOrderSocialConsciousnessEconomicEvolutionHigherInnovationHarmonyEnvironmentalPatternsFavorsScalesMassiveCollapseInterventionBreakdownConvergenceEnhancement Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.” MenWayNeedsDifferentPlayFormSocialPovertyModernMaterialsTypeIndustryCapableScalesProductiveEcologyUnitsCognitionModern ScienceContainingLarge Scale Author:Ernest Gellner