Social Consciousness Quotes:

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

- Karl Marx

source: Karl Marx (2012). “The Essential Marx”, p.72, Courier Corporation

topic: Cash, Social Consciousness, Ideals

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

- H. Rap Brown

topic: Commitment, Together, Consciousness, Coming Together, Social Consciousness

No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.210, Best Books on

topic: Years, Civilization, Effort, Modern Civilization, Arrangements

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

- Marguerite Young

topic: Book, Writing, Mean, Big Book, Undertow

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

- John Dewey

source: John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.93, SIU Press

topic: Regulation, Consciousness, Individual, Social Consciousness

Actions speak louder than words. Businesses must act. Once the door to social consciousness is opened, bring the spirit of your company through it to affect change.

- Brian Solis

topic: Doors, Spirit, Action, Actions Speak Louder, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

topic: Competition, Waste, Consciousness, Social Consciousness

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

- John Scalzi

source: Twitter post from Feb 10, 2014

topic: Consciousness, Social, Stuck, Social Consciousness

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don't know how to use it, if you don't know where to point it, or what you're using it for, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot or killing your sisters or brothers.

- Assata Shakur

topic: Brother, Powerful, Feet, Powerful Weapons, Very Powerful

Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions...if there are no values or if there is no awareness or social consciousness...a heritage tradition can never be developed.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Tourism, India, Doe, Social Consciousness

A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.

- Andrew Harvey

topic: Spiritual, Suicidal, Self, Profound Spiritual, Juggernaut

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

- Camryn Manheim

topic: Views, Practice, People, Social Consciousness

I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.

- Muhammad Yunus

source: Muhammad Yunus (2001). “Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Believe, Government, Law, Social Consciousness

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

- Doc Brown

source: Source: www.comedy.co.uk

topic: Trying, Firsts, Comedy, Social Consciousness

Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.

- Evo Morales

topic: Class, Groups, Bolivia, Ethnic Groups, Social Consciousness

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

- Pauline Kael

source: pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

topic: Depressing, Art, Mean, Social Consciousness