Social Optics Quotes

#1. Morality does not depend on religion.

John Ruskin

#2. The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.

Charles Dickens

#3. In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

Alvin Ailey

#4. So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot.

Steve Burton

#5. Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

Michael Barnett

#6. The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

Joe Jamail

#7. There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Jim Hightower

#8. I hope I don't dream tonight. Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

Henry Rollins

#9. A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

William Howard Taft

#10. Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom

Louis Menand