Social Attitudes Quotes

#1. America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

Condoleezza Rice

#2. People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Erica Jong

#3. Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

#4. Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein

#5. Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

Edmund Hillary

#6. We atheists can ... argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.

Philip Warren Anderson

#7. If we define society as a human community, then the transformation of individual attitudes and values represents meaningful social change.

Leslie Weisman

#8. Planned parenthood in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.

Gunnar Myrdal

#9. I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

Kenny Rogers

#10. Life at H.I.V.E. may have its attractions after all, Otto thought. Friends, as they say, may come and go, but high-powered laser weapons are forever.

Mark Walden

#11. The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.

Pope John Paul II

#12. CHILDREN Are Like ANGELS And On Earth, ANGELS Have No Color ... It's The Society To Blame That Teaches Racism, Turning An ANGLE To A Civilized Beast While They Are Growing Up ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#13. Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

Alan Barth

#14. I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

Stanislaw Lem

#15. Golf is not easy.

Yani Tseng

#16. The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision!

Richard King

#17. Damn! Blazing Hades! That filth-eating son of a pig-fart!

Diana Gabaldon

#18. Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

Ruth Benedict

#19. It is worth recalling that Britain, over several centuries, waged a war against homosexuality - in the name of religion, social order, decency, etc. - that certainly equalled, and in its scale probably outstripped, anything that happens in Arab countries today.

Brian Whitaker

#20. I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

Claudio Arrau

#21. IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. But social savvy is knowledge. It's a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.

Malcolm Gladwell

#22. Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

George Bernard Shaw

#23. TV's influence on gender attitudes, social advancement, and fertility rates was equivalent to the impact of an extra five years of female education.

Deborah Blum

#24. Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

James Dobson

#25. My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Robert E.Lee

#26. In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.

Simon Mainwaring

#27. A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.

Anthony Burgess

#28. Life is just too short to count calories forever!

Debi Mazar

#29. Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst.

Stefan Emunds

#30. It is sometimes dangerous to make requests to men, who are too desirous of receiving them.

Fanny Burney

#31. The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple of centuries or more ago.

Brian Whitaker

#32. Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

Alan W. Watts

#33. Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.

Richard Ebeling

#34. Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

David Byrne

#35. When people believe that the local government and economy serve their needs. There is little desire to protest.

Auliq Ice

#36. People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

Ann Landers