Famous quotes containing the words social and/or situation:
“There is a social respect necessary in company: you may start your own subject of conversation with modesty, taking care, however, de ne jamais parler de cordes dans la maison dun pendu.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, thenlet us make no mistakepacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.”
—John Middleton Murry (18891957)