#soc

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. ↗

— Bernice Weissbourd

#fragile #get #help #most #need

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#been #carry #computers #demands #faster

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#everyone #faces #first #nurtures #smiling

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #food-science #nutrition #social-sciences #diet

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion. ↗

— Bill Nye

#gives #intellectually #investment #passion #society

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#being #born #development #does #drop

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#faces #long-term #security #social #social security

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#only #privatizing #problem #security #social

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#same #socialization #thing

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#am #any #association #beneficial #could