Quotes about Social Work

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. Votes: 6

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession. Votes: 6

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. Votes: 6

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time. Votes: 6

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people. Votes: 6

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. Votes: 6

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. Votes: 5

I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation. Votes: 5

Politics is social work with power. Votes: 4

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work. Votes: 4

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent. Votes: 4

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs. Votes: 4

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. Votes: 4

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work. Votes: 4

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work? Votes: 4

We try to use our experiences as leverage for our social work, to help children to get education because that is the way to get a special life. Votes: 4

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. Votes: 4

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy. Votes: 4

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be... Votes: 4

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus. Votes: 4

The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Votes: 4

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. Votes: 4

They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is. Votes: 4

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy. Votes: 3

I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I eventually served for seven years, I was so nervous to go and lobby my state legislators. Because I only had a master's degree at the time in social work. Votes: 2

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans. Votes: 2

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. Votes: 1

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work. Votes: 0

Work is valued by the social value of the worker. Votes: 0

I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work. Votes: 0

My work is not directly about the social or political. Votes: 0

Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media. Votes: 0

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it. Votes: 0

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem. Votes: 0

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work. Votes: 0

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing. Votes: 0

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems. Votes: 0

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work Votes: 0

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work. Votes: 0

Social work is an opportunity for huge hearts they remember to do small things. Votes: 0

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry. Votes: 0

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work. Votes: 0

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. Votes: 0

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. Votes: 0

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence. Votes: 0

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work! Votes: 0

Social media is critical to our work. We partner with digital outreach to humanize AIDS & tell stories. Votes: 0

In 2012, 40 of the top companies to work for were also among the top companies in social media. Votes: 0

Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities. Votes: 0

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one. Votes: 0

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen. Votes: 0

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them. Votes: 0

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups. Votes: 0

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work. Votes: 0

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. Votes: 0

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. Votes: 0

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. Votes: 0

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. Votes: 0

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy. Votes: 0

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. Votes: 0

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work. Votes: 0

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook. Votes: 0

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. Votes: 0

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. Votes: 0

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. Votes: 0

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. Votes: 0

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world. Votes: 0

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape. Votes: 0

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security. Votes: 0

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation. Votes: 0

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think. Votes: 0

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology Votes: 0

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. Votes: 0

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together. Votes: 0

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma. Votes: 0

I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way. Votes: 0

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way. Votes: 0

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political. Votes: 0

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort. Votes: 0

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible. Votes: 0

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel! Votes: 0

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office. Votes: 0

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. Votes: 0

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done. Votes: 0

I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues. Votes: 0

Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate. Votes: 0

Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more. Votes: 0

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground. Votes: 0

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end. Votes: 0

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices. Votes: 0

The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work together Votes: 0

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. Votes: 0

It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms. Votes: 0

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all. Votes: 0

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live. Votes: 0

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live. Votes: 0

Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect. Votes: 0

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together. Votes: 0

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice. Votes: 0

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core. Votes: 0

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves. Votes: 0

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it. Votes: 0

Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal. Votes: 0

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value. Votes: 0

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work. Votes: 0

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social. Votes: 0

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. Votes: 0

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. Votes: 0