Social Problems Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by… — Thomas Sowell
Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims — Edmund Hillary
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. — Noel Ignatiev
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will… — Noel Ignatiev
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems. — Angela Davis
Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. — Margaret Sanger
South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problemsâ€¦ It's now 10 years since the… — Nelson Mandela
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best,… — Michael Eric Dyson
The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. .… — David Popenoe
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of… — Rudolf Virchow
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them. — Rudolf Virchow
Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand… — Ronald J. Sider
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban… — Michael Porter
Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for… — Murray Bookchin
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractableâ€”from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy,… — Vinod Khosla
Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating… — Ben Cohen
We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth. — Hans Kung
When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you… — Dan Pallotta
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an… — Theodore Dalrymple
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… — Angela Davis

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