"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"While I don't think that Twitter is really an appropriate place for someone who seriously needs help, it shows the impact that we can have when we collectively come together to support someone."

"Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him."

"This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We shall do it without violence because it is our destiny. To the growers and to all who oppose us, we say the words of Benito Juarez: `Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace.'"

"Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same protection as others - I don['t care whether you call it capitalism or communism -it is not going to work. Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counterpower, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come."

"Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else."

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed."

"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick."

"It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order."

"Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole."

"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men."

"Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids."

"I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac."

"The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities."

"I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do."

"Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?"

"Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance."

"To be social is to be forgiving."

"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

No social stability without individual stability.

“I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.”

“And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.”

“Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.”