#soc

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#cultural #declaration #economic #every #full

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#disposition #first #importance #individuals #inheritances

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#democracy #economy #justice #marxism #representative

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#current #i #interested #policy #politics

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#believe #democracy #elections #hold #i

Not only are poor, unemployed, less will-educated and non-white people more likely to become depressed, but they are also least likely to benefit from treatment by either antidepressants or psychotherapy. That is why combating depression requires more than merely providing effective treatment for those who are already suffering from it. We also need the change the social conditions - such a racism, unemployment, poverty, unaffordable housing, and lack of adequate education - that put people at increased risk of becoming depressed. ↗

— Irving Kirsch

#depression #social-conditions #change

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate. ↗

— David Chalmers

#associations #boil #build #core #down

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#internet #million #networks #now #other