52 Social Quotes & Sayings

I watch 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' with my daughter. We're very into Buffy and Buffy's friends. — Kim Gordon

I'll leave you two alone. Morality might be contagious. — Howard Tayler

One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavat) — Seneca.

Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta. — Elizabeth Olsen

The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in all their interactions, he is the source of all life, he provides the wherewithal for every achievement of human civilization, he is the telos of all that is beautiful. He is, among his many other titles, the Christ of the academic road. — Mark Noll

To enter a world of shadows is to leave this world for another. — Anthony Doerr

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty. — Noah Webster

Count Coudenhove-Kalergi put it succinctly in one of his speeches when he declared his ambition that Europe "supersedes democracy" and that democracy be replaced by a "social aristocracy of the spirit."52 — Yanis Varoufakis

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted. — Rachel Cohn

They seemed so free, and were as a matter of fact so tangled and tied up, inside themselves. They seemed so dashing and unconventional, and were really so conventional, so, as it were, shut up indoors inside themselves. They looked like bold, tall young sloops, just slipping from the harbour, into the wide seas of life. And they were, as a matter of fact, two poor young rudderless lives, moving from one chain anchorage to another. — D.H. Lawrence

To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52) — Donald Rothberg

I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years. — Rick Rubin

We all need love, don't we, even the worst killers, the worst animals! We all need love. — Anne Rice

As with scientists, American university professors were more atheistic or agnostic than the general populace (23 percent versus 7 percent nonbelievers, respectively). But when professors from different areas were polled, it became clear that scientists were the least religious. While only 6 percent of "health" professors were atheists or agnostics, this figure was 29 percent for humanities, 33 percent for computer science and engineering, 39 percent for social sciences, and a whopping 52 percent for physical and biological scientists together. When disciplines were divided more finely, biologists and psychologists tied as the least religious: 61 percent of each group were agnostics or atheists. — Jerry A. Coyne