#social

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#bring #country #family #greatest #mankind

I'm not any kind of social reformer. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#i #kind #reformer #social

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#change #first #necessary #resistance #say

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. ↗

— George H. Mead

#determination #effect #especially #experience #group

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead! ↗

— James Howard Kunstler

#clown #clowns #community #social-criticism #the-united-states

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#biological #fact #natural #reality #socially

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#demise #effective #overstated #predictions #prior

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

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

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#same #socialization #thing