Quotes on the topic: Social


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Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.


We don't like what we don't know or understand. Parents don't like the thought of their kids embracing social media because they don't fully understand the benefits and dangers.


What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.


Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.


A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.


One of the things I've become immune to is people talking about market cap and social media platforms.


Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.


I've never been a social person.


The world needs more social innovations.


I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.


A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.


It's interesting now; with social media, you are actually interacting with fans.


My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.


Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.


I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.


My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.


Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.


I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.


I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.


When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.