Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the...

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as ‘gay’? If we don’t,...

I didn’t have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.

The president’s claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

I think women are excellent social critics.

Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

Well, uh… well, have fun watching your home movies then,” Mandy finished, but she didn’t have the slightest idea what he was talking about.

Let us not be like the forest fox foraging for food for itself forever!Let us be like the assiduous ant, always accumulating ample assets for all ants with altruism and all-round assistance.

I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn’t hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn’t look like a nerd. I never really fit into any...

Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution.

Another man whose social life has ruined him.

I’m a social media addict.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Social pressure makes a person depressed.

It’s hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It’s hard to know where to look.

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there’s kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn’t make them any less important or severe; it’s just we kind of know their shape, and we...

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and...

I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this ‘ivory tower’ aspect of journalism where people might read a byline for years but have no...

Facebook isn’t helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn’t develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There’s a part of me that feels somewhat bored...

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or...

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to...

The most tragic cause of social disharmony is when the speed with which people find mistakes of others outweighs their simple belief that they too are infallible!

Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes...

Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don’t, and trying to keep up with...

For guns and ammunition,” says I.

You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.

Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of...

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Amanece en México. Millones de ciudadanos se preparan para otra ardua jornada laboral. Un controlados aéreo de la torre del Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez de la Ciudad de México entrega su turno después de una...

Social situations, for me – it’s very natural for me to be an observer. That’s where I’m most comfortable. I observe things.

Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president – pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome...

You know what, I don’t really watch a lot of cooking shows, but what’s great about them is that it inspires a lot of the younger generation so, you know, with cooking shows and reality...

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we...

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Haji Ali taught me to…slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime...

We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from...

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world’s people share the benefits of globalization.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.