Societal Issue Quotes

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.

Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.

To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

It has always seemed strange to me. The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.

People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

Poverty is an artificial imposition on a human being.

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend to give advice to others on how to deal with corruption.

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Multiculturalism has failed, big time.

Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.

Infidelity is a fairly common occurrence in society but very often not spoken about.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

A lot of people are scared to come visit my hometown, but to me, violence is everywhere, man.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.

It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.