Quotes About Society

It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.

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.

If you're trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally important to human society, that's really important to our mission at Indie Bio.

A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviors towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

Not everything can be solved by government.

Many of humanity's most intractable challenges will only be solved through market-driven innovation.

In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in 9/11, and capitalism proved completely flawed in 2008.

I see that that 'American dream' is slipping away because we're not solving the problems of today, we're not planning for the future.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.

By solving housing and childcare problems, we will achieve a society where each person can properly invest in their development and realize their full potential.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

There are people who just love to destroy other people. It saddens me to admit that, I think, at whatever state of human civilisation we arrive at, the will to destroy other people is something that is innate in some people.

College is right for some people, and it's not for others. I shouldn't rush into it just because that's what everyone does after high school is you go to college.

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.