Are deviations from full employment a social problem?…

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

— Janet Yellen

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter…

— Simon Sinek

“When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear…

— Christina Stead

“Deviations from standard results are not failures, but opportunities for new questions to be asked and ideas to be tested.”

— Roger Spitz

Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by…

— John W. Gardner

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

— Federica Montseny

“Helen declared Western civilization's lack of understanding of other peoples' customs to be the world's greatest and gravest social problem.”

— Lily King

The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of…

— Volkmar Sigusch

A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which…

— Pauline Hanson

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection…

— Jackson Katz

“at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in…

— Frédéric Bastiat

The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that can contribute…

— A. C. Cuza

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it…

— Charles A. Murray

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to…

— Andrew Forrest