“ It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something. ”
- Don Cheadle- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ”
- Richard Carlson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice. ”
- Bernice Sandler- Copy
- 889
“ 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. ”
- E. J. Hobsbawm- Copy
- 2K
“ The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. ”
- Paul Johnson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. ”
- Auberon Waugh- Copy
- 2K
“ Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
- 47
“ I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want. ”
- Phil Lout- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it. ”
- Anthony M. Burns- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. ”
- Kenneth Williams- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls. ”
- Tom Wolfe- Copy
- 257
“ I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value. ”
- John Waters- Copy
- 925
“ The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. ”
- Ashely Montagu- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I think it's part of that heritage or that tradition of the creative artist trying to reconcile the insanity and ruthlessness of the artistic process with living a sane and socially acceptable existence. ”
- Kevin Kline- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I enjoy this status so much, feeling that I'm close to the heart of the tribe as an actor, a storyteller, a troubadour, but socially quite distant because I don't fit into any particular comfortable slot. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends. ”
- Caryl P. Haskins- Copy
- 3.4K
“ There is a difference between being a hacker and the socially inadequate computer geek vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world. ”
- Alan Cox- Copy
- 2.5K
“ While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful. ”
- Conrad Black- Copy
- 2K
“ Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ”
- Albert Bandura- Copy
- 449
“ Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough. ”
- Gail Sheehy- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before… ”
- Shirley Chisholm- Copy
- 2.7K
“ There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished… ”
- John Davy- Copy
- 3.9K
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