Societal Problem Quotes

Mental health is an issue ailing everyone - it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

I do think homophobia is rife, as it always has been.

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

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

My main message is that I have a problem with the Islamicisation of our societies.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.

The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

We're dealing with that question now, in the media. How does the judicial system work? There's never going to be a clear-cut answer, but it's a conversation and a conflict in the community. It's not a white thing or a black thing. It's a society thing and a culture thing, and we've gotta figure it out.

When you talk about domestic violence, it's not just athletes that are involved in it. Our society has really done a poor job of addressing it. And it needs to come to the forefront.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand you and doesn't want to understand you... There's no natural behaviour. Everyone is wearing clothes they don't want to wear. Everybody is showing up and doing something they don't want to do. They have no connection to it. That's the problem with our society.

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

For all our policing, we understand that law enforcement is not the solution to the problem of drugs in our society.

We have lived with violence far too long.

Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole.

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.