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  • The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.

    Faith   Teaching   People  
    P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.280, Faber & Faber
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
  • ...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

  • I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

    Work   Heirs   Royalty  
  • 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.

  • Politics is social work with power.

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

    Rights   Purpose   Favour  
  • If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  • Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

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

    Crush   Teaching   School  
  • Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

  • Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

    Life   Courage   Time  
  • Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

    Attitude   Army   Men  
    Jane Addams (2006). “Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace”, p.303, A&C Black
  • 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.

    Girl   Teenage   Black  
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, January 17, 2008.
  • 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.

    Sweet   Father   Selfish  
  • How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

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

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war movement. I thought I'd go about saving the world one person at a time. I worked with kids, teenagers mostly, in neighborhood centers, on the streets, and eventually in a drop-in center.

    War   Teenager   Kids  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism... There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.

    Source: www.denofgeek.com
  • Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

    Girl   Lazy   Social Work  
    Georgette Heyer (2010). “They Found Him Dead”, p.209, Random House
  • With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.

    Sports   Fun   Night  
    Source: app.longform.org
  • I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

  • 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.

    Jesus   Heart   Goal  
  • 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.

  • How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

    FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011
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