Failure Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“We are social animals; hell is other people.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The whole program of unemployment insurance, Social Security, was a confession of the failure of our whole social order. And confession of failure of…

— Studs Terkel

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to…

— Arthur William Galston

I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.

— Michael Sandel

“The problem is that the choice we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if…

— Robert B. Reich

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of…

— George Soros

We are now enjoying the liberation that comes with not having to be organization men and women, and that's fabulous. But there are new…

— Robert Reich

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are…

— Evgeny Morozov

Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves…

— Steven Rose

“What, I wonder, are the social consequences of life in a country that has no use for history?”

— Teju Cole

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“North American society tries to bury many problems under tons of medications, preferring to ignore the social and cultural causes of people’s stressed mental…

— Gabor Maté

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any…

— Marshall McLuhan

“It's more difficult, you know, to bring about positive change than it is to make money. It's much easier to make money, because it's…

— George Soros

“If Hell is other people... then Purgatory is airports.”

— Neil Gaiman