Social quotes hit different because they are about all of us — the neighbors, the friends, the strangers on the sidewalk who make up this thing we call society. We spend so much time scrolling past each other that we forget the real social network was never an app. It was the front porch, the block party, the shared table where everybody eats and nobody checks their phone. Community is not built in grand gestures; it is built on ordinary Tuesdays, one small kindness at a time.
I wrote this collection because I believe people need people the way plants need sunlight — it is not weakness, it is design. This page is updated with fresh new lines — 60 original sayings on society, friendship, belonging, and the everyday magic of showing up for each other. No copied lists, no filler, just warm human words from one neighbor to another.
So pull up a chair and stay a while. These social quotes are a reminder that kindness scales, that a welcoming door beats a clever slogan, and that the best gatherings are the ones where everyone leaves a little warmer than they arrived.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
A lifetime single worker really gets a horrid deal from Social Security. The return on average is less than 0.5 percent. These workers would be nearly better off stuffing their payroll tax dollars under a mattress.
A lot of cats are not that social.
A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.
A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren’t ‘plug-and-play.’ The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
A novel, even a social realist one, can’t simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.
A people cannot exist if there is no social solidarity.
A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
A social worker named Cosette Rae, along with a therapist named Hilarie Cash, founded ‘ReSTART’ in what, until then, had been Rae’s house.
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation’s senior citizens.
All business must have a social license to operate.
All businesses should have an element of social enterprise, and all social enterprises should not ignore the most important lessons from successful commercial businesses.
All comedy is really talking about social issues and things that are affecting our lives.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.
Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
Amazingly, I think that a lot of times athletes are – are kind of in a position where other think they shouldn’t weigh in on certain social topics.
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.
And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don’t reform social security and we don’t reform Medicare, they’re going to actually implode.
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.
Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
Another man whose social life has ruined him.
Any society that starts forbidding certain words or expressions is a society you should be wary about, whether it’s the KGB or social consensus that enforces it.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
AOL invented social networking.
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.
As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
At school, my favourite subject was social studies.
At school, when it came to being social, I had no idea how to do it.
Athletes are in a position where others think they shouldn’t weigh in on certain social topics.
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
Bolsonaro is a tropical Trump. They have a very common agenda, a very regressive agenda, when it comes to civil rights, social rights, and environmental rights.
Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.
Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.
Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.
Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.
Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.
Social Quotes About Life
Cocktails and food are social.
Comedians play off of social commentary.
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
David knew everyone because he’s such a social butterfly.
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
Delaware State began as a school bent on service – teaching education, social services and nursing.
Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging.
Directing is physically exciting because there’s a ticking clock, you’re working with people, it’s very social, it’s very enjoyable.
Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn’t that obvious?
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.
Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.
Everybody’s social life in Jordan revolves around family.
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
Fandom is about fandom, it’s a great big social club.
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history.
For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.
For Unilever, investing in women is an imperative. The business and social cases for doing so are inextricably linked.
Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.
Foursquare’s adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It’s broken.
From the Marines, from Ohio State, from Yale, from other places, people have really stepped in and ensured that they filled that social capital gap that it was pretty obvious, apparently, that I had.
Games are the most social of all things on the web.
Games have become a social phenomenon.
Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills – and their delight in using them – develop earlier than boys’.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Giving triggers social cohesion. It’s also the basis for an economy not based on money.
Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social experiment.
Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.
Inspirational Social Quotes
Human beings are social creatures – not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.
I am a believing and practising Muslim – but I am also a social democrat.
I am a social liberal.
I am a social realist writer.
I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.
I am social media savvy.
I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.
I am very bad at schmoozing, and I’m not overtly charming in social situations.
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
I by no means quit social media.
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
I can’t imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
I care about a lot of social issues, and I care about fashion.
I come from a well-educated and cultured, middle-class Maharashtrian family and have been brought up with social awareness.
I consider myself a progressive Republican. I am liberal on social issues.
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
I define ‘social thriller’ as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.
I didn’t used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
I don’t believe in social equality, and they know it.
I don’t care about a social life.
I don’t do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.
I don’t do social media.
I don’t do well in social environments.
I don’t ever try to make a serious social comment.
I don’t get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.
I don’t go on social media.
I don’t have any social life or anything.
I don’t have political agendas. I have social agendas.
I don’t like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.
I don’t particularly have a wide social circle.
I don’t read social media.
I don’t really go out partying, but I’m definitely a social butterfly.
I don’t really have a social life.
I don’t support getting rid of Social Security.
I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
I get accused of being a social worker every now and then.
I get bullied a lot on social media, and it’s terrible.
I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.
I graduated from Kellogg. I studied social enterprise.
I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don’t interact properly in certain social situations.
I have a good social life.
I have a life of sacrifice. I don’t have a normal social life.
Short Social Quotes
I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I’m not opposed to social media.
I have a social life. But I don’t discuss it.
I have a very normal social group that I really feed off of. They ground me. They’re super supportive.
I have been a policymaker proven in tackling some very complex social issues on the municipal level here in Boston.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that’s in Russia and Poland.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.
I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
I have no message or answers to social questions.
I have no social agenda with my work. I’m deadpan about it.
I have social anxiety.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
I have tremendous social anxiety.
I hope people from the social work profession do not encourage labelling.
I just kept making social mistakes in my career.
I like Christianity. I’m a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course.
I like social media.
I love food. I love drink. I love that social thing.
I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.
I never sought to privatize Social Security.
I oppose the president’s plan to privatize Social Security.
I prefer social politics to politics.
I really use social media to keep up with what’s happening.
I really utilize all of my social networking sites.
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn’t have girlfriends, and really I wasn’t a very social boy.
I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.
I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.
I think it’s a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles – they are both barristers.
I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
I think social issues are always part of a presidential campaign.
I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn’t perfectly portrayed.
I think there’s a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they’re not sufficient because markets don’t look after social needs.
I think there’s a misconception that I’m opposed to social media.
I think there’s a mystery about what a social movement is.
I think there’s really strong social stratification in South Asia.
I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers, and we didn’t capitalize on that.
I think women are excellent social critics.
I thought ‘The Social Network’ was fantastic.
I tried to find a social niche at Harvard – a group, my group – but I was unsuccessful.
I usually surface on social media only when there’s a film.
I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.
I wanted to use sports for social change.
I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.
I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.
I was considered the luckiest of all the female gypsies since I landed the job as social secretary to Ambassador and Mrs. David Bruce at the American Embassy.
I was in the class they made ‘The Social Network’ about.
I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
I was writing ‘He Who Shapes’ when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.
I wasn’t a social butterfly at all.
Deep Social Sayings
I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer… but it’s not social enough.
I went to college, and I didn’t want to be in a sorority, so I started working in restaurants. In my mind, that was my social outlet.
I would like to have a more social life than I have.
I would love to see a march on Washington that says ‘Save our Social Security’.
If development is defined in social and economic terms while Hindutva is defined in cultural terms, it should be possible for the BJP to construct a political platform that is reassuring to a large majority of Indians and is respectful to the letter and spirit of the Constitution.
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
If I could police every other social platform in the world, I would.
If I hadn’t been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.
If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.
If you don’t have 30 years to devote to social policy, don’t get involved.
If you’re going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can’t be politically correct when you do that.
Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.
In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.
In Austria, a rather authoritarian Catholic country, the role of the social admonisher traditionally fell to artists because there were no great political thinkers.
In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.
In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.
In May of 2010, I joined Kevin Systrom, my co-founder, and we created ‘Instagram’, a mobile social network that today has over 15 million users.
In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.
In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.
In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.
In Socrates’ thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.
It gets to whether we’re a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we’re about the latter.
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.
It is not business, it is not government – it is the social sector that may yet save the society.
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.
It was Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez who benefited most from the World Social Forum’s enthusiasms.
It’s a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
It’s a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
It’s a social life, or time to read the comment section: I prefer social life.
It’s not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It’s now.
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science.
It’s really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I’ve done.
It’s social progress to just be you.
Famous Social Sayings
It’s terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.
It’s true that Miitomo, at its core, aims to foster social engagement. That’s what it’s all about.
I’m a Bill Clinton social Republican.
I’m a law-and-order guy. I mean, I confess I’m a social conservative, but it does not affect my views on cases.
I’m a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
I’m a social guy, I think.
I’m a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
I’m a social media addict.
I’m an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I’m not gonna frighten off social conservatives.
I’m aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with utmost commitment and determination international, economic and social priorities.
I’m basically a libertarian, and I’m a conservative on economic matters, and I’m a social liberal.
I’m Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.
I’m constantly cooking on social media.
I’m done. Done with social media. Done.
I’m double majoring in social studies – which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy – and African-American studies.
I’m fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.
I’m hardly a smartphone addict. I rarely look at social media.
I’m in touch with the social networks and stuff.
I’m interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don’t watch politics for sport.
I’m interested in social commentary.
I’m much more confident performing than I am in social situations.
I’m not a highly social person. I’m a highly productive person.
I’m not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
I’m not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.
I’m not any kind of social reformer.
I’m not equipped for the social media thing.
I’m not into social media. I’m like from another century.
I’m not involved on any social media; it’s really not my style.
I’m not on social media; I don’t watch TV. I’m really out of it.
I’m not the biggest on social media.
I’m obsessed with the idea of social TV.
I’m of the opinion that gender is a social construct.
I’m on Instagram more than any other social platform.
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
I’m sure I’m one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.
I’m theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was going to auditions; I was taking the classes.
I’m there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.
I’m trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.
I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
I’m very outgoing and social.
I’m very social. It’s just most of my friends are not actors.
I’ve always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety.
I’ve always been engaged in social protection programmes.
I’ve always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.
I’ve always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
I’ve always known I’ve wanted to build companies that have a social impact.
I’ve always wanted to be part of stories about social justice – urgent, meaningful, substantial dramas.
I’ve always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
I’ve never been a social person.
I’ve never been much given to little social cliques.
Social Quotes About Society
I’ve never been one to tear the social fabric.
I’ve never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
Kulanu is the only party actually championing social issues.
Language is a social art.
Large majorities of voters support taxing millionaires and protecting social security.
Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context.
Lists have always implied social order.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.
LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh – not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing – is uncommon among adults.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.
Machine Zone is redefining the face of social mobile MMO games.
Man has been adjudged a social animal.
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
Margaret Thatcher was pro-choice. She voted to decriminalize homosexuality. Was not profoundly religious. She was very liberal on social issues.
Mark Udall wants to run a social issues campaign. He definitely wants to run as the social issues candidate.
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.
Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
Most of my friends are in the industry – photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates – we’re mostly out for ourselves.
Most people don’t realize turkeys are friendly, they’re social, they’re loyal, they have emotions.
Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.
Music is a social act.
My background is in social work and psychotherapy.
My dad was a pretty social animal when he wasn’t working.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.
My family, my background… it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.
My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
My fear is that people associate Rand Paul’s social conservatism with libertarianism, when it’s not.
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.
My kids are really into social justice.
My mom’s a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.
My neighbors aren’t millionaires. They’re retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.
My social life is so important to me.
My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn’t until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.
My work is not directly about the social or political.
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
Funny Social Quotes
No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
No, there is no ‘need’ for me to do a social cinema.
Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.
Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.
None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.
Of course, I saw ‘The Social Network,’ which is a beautiful film.
On social questions, national defense, economic issues, I’m a strong conservative.
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.
One notable feature is that English doesn’t have much of a system for expressing relative social status.
One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I’m Swiss. It’s a great social meal.
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don’t.
One of the problems we’re facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.
Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.
Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.
Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
Our phones have created what I like to call SADD – Social Attention Deficit Disorder.
Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don’t cling.
Our species likes being social.
Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
People don’t want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.
People’s access to social media should not permanently be restricted.
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.
Primarily I’m a social commentator rather than someone who’s out to get the belly laugh.
Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.
Public social services, infrastructural policies, and so on are vital. But a basic income should be part of a package of reforms.
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
Realtime ads are the perfect way for an advertiser to connect with users in a social environment.
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Salesforce’s Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.
Science is performed by people, and it’s subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
Sen. Udall can only talk about one thing: He’s a social issues warrior.
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Seniors are concerned about Medicare and Social Security. I advocated in Congress a separate and distinct lockbox fund for Social Security.
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better – at least for the purposes of social discourse.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.
Social changes always involve trade-offs.
Social cohesion and inclusive growth are additional crucial perspectives to incorporate into public policies, targeting a renewed social contract that reduces inequalities and benefits the whole of society.
Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process – it’s breaking down our visibility.
Social conservatives say who drives the bus.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
Social enterprise is an effective solution for social problems.
Social enterprise is at its most impactful when the goal is empowerment, not relief.
Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
Social media can be so addictive.
Social media can be so damaging.
Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.
Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.
Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.
Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
Social media is so huge.
Social media is so influential now.
Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.
Social media isn’t a one-way broadcast; it’s a multiway opportunity for dialogue.
Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.
Social media overwhelms me.
Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.
Social media’s greatest assets – anonymity, ‘virality,’ interconnectedness – are also its main weaknesses.
Social messaging has become the defining app of the smartphone era. Social payments has been a natural extension of this phenomenon – it’s going to be the locus of most communications activity.
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.
Social networking is a big boon – I agree to it.
Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they’re so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.
Social networks didn’t exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn’t exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Social peace requires reciprocity.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
Social realism takes research.
Social revolutions are never simple.
Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.
Social satire has been around since people have been around.
Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.
Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.
Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.
Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.
Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.
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Social Security is a social insurance program – it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
Social Security is a tax and an insurance program. It’s not a 401(k) program.
Social Security is a tax.
Social Security is an extremely complicated program.
Social Security is at last on the nation’s front burner.
Social Security is fundamentally strong.
Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.
Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.
Social Security is the most important social program in America.
Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Social sharing of photos – landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art – can spark conversations and deeper engagements.
Social studies was my favorite subject. I remember I portrayed Walter Mondale in a mock debate in my sophomore social studies class.
Social support is everything.
Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients’ lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.
The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form the stalwarts of Trump’s base.
The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.
The Bible is a study guide for social interaction.
The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
The day Trump got elected, I got off social media.
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel – especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.
The exploitation of distressed workers and the social disparities must not continue.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.
The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
The gender thing doesn’t exist; it’s a social construct you don’t have to fit into.
The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a ‘gray area’ for social interactions.
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.
The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.
The main thing I don’t like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.
The media has to go local and go social.
The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.
The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
The No. 1 challenge is getting people to understand that Pinterest isn’t a social network.
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The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.
The Obama campaign has adeptly used YouTube and social networks as a relatively thrifty way to do targeted messaging.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government – quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point – is that ours is to be a government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
The real sin with Social Security is that it’s a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there’s no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.
The social and educational value of preschool is undisputed.
The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.
The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
The social network will be the new production line.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
The SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications.
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.
The U.S. Military is no place for social experiments.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
The whole point of social media is continuity and continual engagement.
The world needs more social innovations.
The ‘Alliance for Progress’ was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it’s something to do with the social structure of society.
There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency – that sort of thing.
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a ‘social consciousness’ concept album disguised as a country record.
There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.
There is great potential for investments that are built around improving social, environmental, and economic conditions.
There is no quick technical fix for a social problem.
There is no such condition as ‘schizophrenia’, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
There is only one social system that reflects the sovereignty of the individual: the free-market, or capitalist, system.
There’s a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.
There’s a certain pattern that exists with geniuses – an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
There’s a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
There’s a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.
There’s a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.
There’s always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
There’s another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.
There’s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
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There’s going to be a lot of collaborative social experiences with Rift and Touch.
There’s kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
There’s so much bullying, and there’s so much negativity on social media.
They ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don’t privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That’s where the Democrats ought to be.
Those projects most successful on Kickstarter – those that receive funding completely and quickly – do so largely because the creator has a strong social network and invites people to be engaged.
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.
To be social is to be forgiving.
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn’t be bothered – that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It’s so off-putting.
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures – if not happiness – its hopeful pursuit.
To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries.
To me, it is clear that the Social Security program is constitutional.
To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.
Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.
Twitter isn’t a social network, it’s an information network.
Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
Under the Bush plan, Social Security gets weaker, not stronger.
Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.
Using social media can often be the fastest and easiest way to connect with online influencers because they are already established platforms for connecting with like-minded individuals.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free.
Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks – even at 35,000 feet.
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.
We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.
We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
We believe in a best-in-class vertical strategy, with PR at the center as its operating ethos of earned at the core, social by design.
We brought augmented reality to the marketplace with Nintendo 3DS. We made it fun; we made it social.
We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.
We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.
We can’t continue with this social democracy here in Brazil.
We don’t see a lot of models for male social interaction. There’s sports and barn raisings.
We dream of nation-building. We cannot achieve this by fomenting social divisions.
We got to fight to protect Social Security.
We have developed our own approach towards rehabilitating people, involving psychological rehabilitation, social rehab within families and of our Religious Rehabilitation Group.
We have to shift the social model from a lot of formal protections toward loosening bottlenecks in the economy.
We hire people who are freaks. They don’t have social lives.
We make interesting companies and real businesses. It’s not social networks for cats.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.
We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.
We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.
We see bitcoin as potentially the greatest social network of all.
We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.
We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
We want the technology in our devices to enable a social experience.
We were a country band with a social conscience.
We’re social beings, and I need to know and remember where I came from.
Fresh Social Quotes
“Society is just a word for the people we choose to show up for.” — Unknown
“A community is built one small kindness at a time.” — Unknown
“We are all just walking each other home, in bigger or smaller groups.” — Unknown
“The strength of a society is measured in how it treats its quietest member.” — Unknown
“No one makes it alone, no matter how good the story sounds.” — Unknown
“People need people the way plants need sunlight — it is not weakness, it is design.” — Unknown
“A friendly street is worth more than a fancy address.” — Unknown
“Society gets better every time someone decides to be decent on purpose.” — Unknown
“Wave at your neighbors. Small bridges hold heavy traffic.” — Unknown
“The best social network ever built is a front porch.” — Unknown
“Communities thrive when somebody brings the chairs and somebody else brings the stories.” — Unknown
“We rise by lifting each other, and we fall by forgetting that.” — Unknown
“A city is just a crowd of strangers agreeing to share the sidewalk.” — Unknown
“Be the person who makes the room feel like it was waiting for you.” — Unknown
“Social life is not about being seen; it is about making others feel seen.” — Unknown
“Every gathering is a chance to leave someone warmer than you found them.” — Unknown
“The village it takes is made of ordinary Tuesdays, not grand gestures.” — Unknown
“People will forget your job title but remember how you made them laugh at lunch.” — Unknown
“A good society makes room for the awkward, the late, and the still-learning.” — Unknown
“Introduce two people who should know each other. That is community work.” — Unknown
“The coffee shop regulars know more about belonging than any textbook.” — Unknown
“Society moves forward on the backs of people who volunteer on weekends.” — Unknown
“Smile at strangers. You never know who needed exactly that.” — Unknown
“A neighborhood potluck can fix what a thousand meetings cannot.” — Unknown
“We are social creatures; even the introverts are just charging their batteries.” — Unknown
“The best party trick is remembering someone’s name.” — Unknown
“Communities are gardens: ignore them and weeds take over, tend them and they feed you.” — Unknown
“Nobody is a background character in their own life. Treat them like the lead.” — Unknown
“Social courage is saying hello first.” — Unknown
“A society that laughs together forgives faster.” — Unknown
“Check on your strong friends. They are usually the quietest about needing it.” — Unknown
“The group chat that actually checks in is worth more than a thousand followers.” — Unknown
“Belonging is not found; it is built, one invitation at a time.” — Unknown
“People gather around warmth faster than they gather around brilliance.” — Unknown
“A block party a year keeps the loneliness away.” — Unknown
“Society is at its best when the old teach, the young dream, and everyone eats together.” — Unknown
“You do not need a crowd. You need a circle that shows up.” — Unknown
“The way we treat service workers is the truest mirror of our society.” — Unknown
“Make your table bigger before you make your house bigger.” — Unknown
“Every community has a glue person. Thank yours today.” — Unknown
“Social media shows highlights; real society happens in the kitchen.” — Unknown
“A handshake still works better than a hundred emojis.” — Unknown
“The people beside you matter more than the people above you.” — Unknown
“Good fences make good neighbors, but good conversations make better ones.” — Unknown
“Society heals when strangers become regulars.” — Unknown
“Bring dessert to the meeting. Watch what happens to the mood.” — Unknown
“We are all neighbors in the same small boat called the day.” — Unknown
“The loudest voice in the room is rarely the wisest. Make space for the rest.” — Unknown
“A community that celebrates together survives anything.” — Unknown
“Your social circle is your second family — choose it like you mean it.” — Unknown
“Kindness scales. One act in a crowd becomes a hundred.” — Unknown
“The park bench philosophers have solved more problems than the think tanks.” — Unknown
“Society does not need more critics; it needs more participants.” — Unknown
“Every stranger is a friend you have not sat next to yet.” — Unknown
“Share your umbrella. That is the whole philosophy, really.” — Unknown
“A welcoming door is worth more than a clever slogan.” — Unknown
“The best societies are the ones where kids feel safe and elders feel wanted.” — Unknown
“Talk to someone outside your bubble this week. Bubbles are boring anyway.” — Unknown
“Community is what is left when the Wi-Fi goes out and people still stay.” — Unknown
“Build the kind of social life your grandmother would brag about.” — Unknown
Frequently Asked Questions About Social Quotes
What are the best social quotes about society?
The best social quotes remind us that society is just people showing up for each other. Favorites from this collection include “Society is just a word for the people we choose to show up for” and “People need people the way plants need sunlight — it is not weakness, it is design.” All 60 are originals written for this page.
What is a good quote about community?
A lovely one is “A community is built one small kindness at a time.” Another favorite: “Belonging is not found; it is built, one invitation at a time.” These community-focused social quotes work beautifully for neighborhood pages, event flyers, and welcome messages.
What do social quotes teach us?
Social quotes teach that belonging is built, not found — through small invitations, shared meals, and showing up on ordinary days. They remind us to be decent on purpose, check on our strong friends, and make our tables bigger before our houses get bigger.
Can I share these social quotes on social media?
Absolutely. Every quote here is an original line from AllQuotesAbout.com, written fresh for this collection. Share them on Instagram, Facebook, or Pinterest, and credit the site when you can so we can keep making new collections.
What is a short social quote for a caption?
Try “Social courage is saying hello first” or “Wave at your neighbors. Small bridges hold heavy traffic.” Both are short, warm, and perfect for captions, community board posts, or a friendly note to someone new in town.
Why do people search for social quotes?
People search for social quotes when they want words for connection — for community events, friendship posts, or moments when society feels divided. The right quote reminds us we are neighbors in the same small boat called the day.
That is our collection of social quotes — 60 fresh lines about society, community, and the people who make life worth living. I hope they reminded you that belonging is built one invitation at a time, and that you are somebody’s reason the neighborhood feels like home.
Bookmark this page for the next community event or friendship post, and share your favorite quote with your circle — the group chat that actually checks in deserves it. For more warm words, visit inspirational quotes and motivational quotes. Now go wave at a neighbor. Small bridges hold heavy traffic.