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“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”

World War Humanity Speak Social Poverty Violence Conditions Buddhism Stem Imbalance Social Conditions Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.”

Thinking Use Speak Social Rooms Dog Medicine Block Apples Cheese Scenarios Sauce Analogies

Author:Sloane Crosley

“I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.”

World Next Speak Social Growing Up Growing Generations Grew Grew Up Digital Next Generation Speak English Digital World

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.”

Feels Firsts May Fall Speak Force Social Challenges Behinds Roles Movement Citizens Politician Forgotten Congress Compromise Protest Legislators Social Movements

Author:Howard Zinn

“Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?”

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

“I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.”

Thinking Should Individual Speak Social Term Class Groups Benefits Philosophical Hardship Comment Social Groups

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.”

Thinking Way Ideas Use Speak Social Issues Comedy Social Issues

Author:Terry Gross

“When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!”

Ifs Trying Doe Important Happens Opportunity Speak Social Neighborhood Social Change Speak The Truth

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.”

Speak Social Virtue Talent Listening Conversation Proportion

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation.”

Men May Different Self Speak Language Social Moral Share Research Men And Women Assuming Vocabulary Systematic Propensity Different Languages Overlapping Social Relationships

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.”

People Ifs Way Kind Asks Speak Social Interest Realizing Honest Events Being Honest Los Angeles Hurtful Interest In Others Social Events

Author:Sandra Tsing Loh

“But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for example, the issue is constantly raised, often with considerable venom. I've repeatedly been challenged on grounds of credentials, or asked, what special training do you have that entitles you to speak of these matters. The assumption is that people like me, who are outsiders from a professional viewpoint, are not entitled to speak on such things.”

“Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is the concern for content.”

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.”

Should Problem Kids Young Speak Social Too Much Media Social Media Online Shut Up Bully

Author:Cara Delevingne

“It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.”

People Mean Important Artist Speak Social Justice Responsibility Issues Band Social Justice Journalist Speaks Out Plumber

Author:Serj Tankian

“I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are interested in alternative health who are never going to become doctors, or practitioners. That is how I am about politics. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.”

Spiritual Political Speak Social Interest Powerful Principles Issues Areas Sacred Realms Intersections Political Issues

Author:Marianne Williamson

“One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.”

Men Needs Doe War Self Spiritual Speak Social Moral Heat Realms Heroic Compatible

Author:William James