Socially Quotes

#1. For some people, the highlight of their entire month could be going out and eating a pizza or watching a movie at a multiplex, and here I am visiting four countries in a month. So, in that way, movies have made me socially aware. I now know how simple people live their lives.

Sonam Kapoor

#2. Our ideas of self are fed to us by corporate game artists who wear us down with their generic mantras of compliance until we identify with a socially acceptable idea of self.

Jeff Brown

#3. Fiscally I'm very conservative ... others say that I'm socially moderate.

Brian Sandoval

#4. Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.

Keith Teare

#5. Whenever my behavior is biologically determined or socially conditioned, it is not truly free. To act freely, according to Kant, is to act autonomously. And to act autonomously is to act according to a law I give myself - not according to the dictates of nature or social convention.

Michael J. Sandel

#6. Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.

Dave Barry

#7. Except for Carrie Bradshaw's in the opening credits of 'Sex and the City,' I don't know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.

Devin Kelley

#8. I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.

Nick Denton

#9. It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.

Bryant McGill

#10. Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

Paulo Coelho

#11. I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

Evan Davis

#12. People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

Ioan Gruffudd

#13. As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

John Waters

#14. There is a perception that because individuals with autism have challenges in the area of communication and social skills, they are not interested in having friends. This is not so. Adults with autism may be socially isolated, but it is not always indicative of a preference for solitude.

Chantal Sicile-Kira

#15. When L.A.'s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

Steve Erickson

#16. To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state.
To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable.
Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.

Rachel Klein

#17. Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Osbert Lancaster

#18. I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

R.L. Stine

#19. We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

Shirley Chisholm

#20. The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

Margaret Thatcher

#21. Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

Rachel Cusk

#22. Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

James Franco

#23. I decided to use 'Frown Power.' This is where you socially deter people from being bigoted by frowning at their ignorant remarks.

The Harvard Lampoon

#24. I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

Suheir Hammad

#25. I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

Ricky Schroder

#26. The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

Tobe Hooper

#27. Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

Ian Bremmer

#28. I'm so sorry. I think I'm just tired."
The socially accepted excuse for being mental.

Lucy Ivison

#29. I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.

Steve Huffman

#30. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

Noam Chomsky

#31. Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

#32. There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?

Noel Tichy

#33. It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.

Jeff Cooper

#34. My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.

Derek Ridgers

#35. Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

Dana Plato

#36. In Cuba, His Holiness [Pope Francis] won't find a government that protects its people and their God-given rights. Instead, he will find a regime that oppresses people and hinders progress, both socially and politically.

Marco Rubio

#37. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#38. Thomas Ross appears to have been something of a rarity: a socially conscious young man.

Stephen King

#39. I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

James Polshek

#40. In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

David Brinkley

#41. A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

Kirk Hammett

#42. I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Stephen King

#43. But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

Rudolf Hiferding

#44. I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.

Candy Darling

#45. I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

Taylor Hicks

#46. I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

Philippe Falardeau

#47. which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges." "So

Jon Ronson

#48. Politically, economically and socially, the Twenty-Teens are a Depression. The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

Bruce Sterling

#49. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E.L. Doctorow

#50. What most news people don't comprehend is that most of the public are not heavy information seekers - unlike journalists and the smaller portion of the population that is socially, politically and economically active.

Robert G. Picard

#51. The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

John Updike

#52. What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.

Peter Drucker

#53. For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.

Caitlin Moran

#54. I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

Jason Isaacs

#55. Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#56. She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.

Joseph Fink

#57. Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

#58. Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

Naomi Wolf

#59. I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.

Helmut Jahn

#60. A hallmark of domestic violence is a man feeling threatened by a woman's friends and attempting to control or limit a woman's social contacts, or to isolate her socially.

John M. Gottman

#61. Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.

Nevada Barr

#62. Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

Henry Spira

#63. I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

Ariel Gore

#64. a country can be too small, too socially knitted, too tightly tied for its own good. Strong social networks can, in certain circumstances, turn to incestuous corruption and the shutting down of democratic discourse. You

Michael Booth

#65. Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.

Duff Goldman

#66. I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

John Sherman Cooper

#67. I was pretty socially awkward as a kid, which is a common thread among animators. You have this need to connect to the rest of the world, but as soon as you do you feel totally awkward and abnormal. And so to relate to the world, you sit and draw.

Pete Doctor

#68. Your job, as a leader, is to encourage the people you're responsible for to move physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially toward the objectives you have set to improve the shared work.

Harold Kurstedt

#69. Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?.

Eric Davis

#70. The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.

Rachel Cusk

#71. All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Sol LeWitt

#72. The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

Lionel Trilling

#73. I hate the word fine. It is descriptive of nothing. Socially acceptable filler with no true meaning. It's what you say when you are checking your feelings, unwilling or unable to let yourself be too happy or too sad. Fine. It's an emotional bookmark. A pause until you can continue the story.

Emme Burton

#74. Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Thurston Moore

#75. The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide.

Michael Sandel

#76. It's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

Judith Martin

#77. I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

Tom Odell

#78. Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution. Yet many of us continue to find solace in illusions, in conformity to systematical oppression, in distractions that keep us mentally, socially and often physically retarded.

D. Allen Miller

#79. Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts.

Gerald Fischbach

#80. Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

Tariq Ali

#81. Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

Michele Montas

#82. He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#83. I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

Danica McKellar

#84. Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

Michael Franti

#85. There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Eric Hobsbawm

#86. They seemed like a team. And I think it is fair to say that Roosevelt was the consummate politician and that Eleanor was the socially conscious activist. It gave them a nice combination of yang and yin, which they took advantage of. And I think it worked very well for them politically.

William A. Rusher

#87. The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

Tim Ferriss

#88. Education is inherently socially inclusive; any failure of inclusion signals the presence of power. An exclusive education is a corrupted education.

Raewyn W. Connell

#89. As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Jonathan Coe

#90. I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.

Holland Roden

#91. Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen.

Tisha Campbell-Martin

#92. The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

Alexandra Harney

#93. The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent

Tariq Ramadan

#94. I am excited to be able to do something at this stage in my life that I feel is going to have some meaning. More helping people from a financial perspective understand their own strengths and lend a voice to things that I think are socially important.

Arlene Dickinson

#95. I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.

John Legend

#96. The performing musician was now expected to write and create for two very different spaces: the live venue, and the device that could play a recording or receive a transmission. Socially and acoustically, these spaces were worlds apart. But the compositions were expected to be the same!

David Byrne

#97. When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.

Chris Hardwick

#98. The way I try to phrase it when I am pressed for time is to say that I am sexually submissive, and socially assertive.

Senta Holland

#99. From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

Rachel Cohn

#100. An Odonian's goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

Ursula K. Le Guin