English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Social Fabric Quotes

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. Stockwell Day
David Korten quote: "Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as..."
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. David Korten
The first rule of tinkering is, of course, ‘save all the parts.’ But in dismantling the social fabric, the parts cannot all be saved, for one of them is time. Time, we were told, is a river flowing endlessly through the universe and one cannot step into the same river twice. Not only can we not undo actions taken in haste and in fear (the Japanese Internment), but those taken from the best reasons, but that have proved destructive (affirmative action); the essential mechanism of societal... David Mamet
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? George Bernard Shaw
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead
Judith Guest quote: "I've never been one to tear the social fabric."
I've never been one to tear the social fabric. Judith Guest
The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. Leopoldo Lopez
Donald L. Carcieri quote: "Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social..."
Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives. Donald L. Carcieri
We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working. Donna Shalala
David Korten quote: "Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong..."
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. David Korten
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. Muhammad Iqbal
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. Marian Wright Edelman
Bashar al-Assad quote: "Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social..."
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. Bashar al-Assad
The ultimate source is probably the tendency in some of us, part of our psychological inheritance from our far-distant ancestors, the tendency to look for extreme solutions, absolute truths, abstract answers. All fanatics and fundamentalists share this tendency, which is so alien and unpleasing to the rest of us. The theory says they must do such-and-such, so they do it, never mind the human consequences, never mind the social cost, never mind the terrible damage to the fabric of everything... Philip Pullman

Popular Topics

Popular Author