Social Problems Quotes

Four million surplus women. Four million sexually unsatisfied women, artificially creating a host of problems in order to excite or appease their senses. Not being able to embrace one man, they embrace humanity.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

Individual interests now trump any consideration of the good of society just as all problems are ultimately laid at the door of the solitary individual, whose fate is shaped by forces far beyond his or her capacity for personal responsibility.

The grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politicians—these are the people who make money out of prostitution.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

Syria is a difficult country to govern. Fifty percent of the Syrians consider themselves national leaders, 25 percent think they are prophets, and ten percent imagine that they are God.

No one in China has a solid belief or trust in society.

One of the key principles of Trumponomics is that faster economic growth can help solve a multitude of other social and economic problems, from poverty to inner-city decline to lowering the national debt.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Look what we have built ... low-income projects that became worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

I am neither a sociologist nor a psychologist, but you don't have to be one to see that Turkey is in a vortex of problems, isolated from the world.

Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible fro 58% of its crimes? We’ve got to face that. And we’ve got to do something about our moral standards. We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.

Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.