Quotes on Social Service

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.