Quotes About Social problems

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

Perhaps the difference lay in the fact that, to the public administration, these people were problems, while to Don Alvise they were people with problems.

People in their natural condition are incapable on their own of seeing the spiritual reality within which they struggle. They see only what appear to be social, political, or economic problems, and they try to work within this appearance using technical means and moral criteria. In this way they end up in situations that are always more false and complicated, until what they have called their civilization reaches the point of collapse.

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

And when immorality prevails, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupted; when women are corrupted, social problems arise.

We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community wealth is privatized for personal gain, we also come to realize just how corrupt most societies actually are. Many social problems exist as a result of how our system misallocates wealth, not as a result of an unalterable human condition.

For us a noncommunist left is this double position, posing social problems in terms of struggle and refusing the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.

Punishing and imprisoning the poor is the distinctively American response to poverty in the twenty-first century. Workers who cannot pay their debts, those who cannot afford private probation services, minorities targeted for traffic infractions, the homeless, the mentally ill, fathers who cannot pay child support and many others are all locked up. Mass incarceration is used to make social problems temporarily invisible and to create the mirage of something having been done.

Negentiende-eeuws concept: de caritasgedachte. Rijken moeten da armen helpen met giften - waarbij de armen wel arm dienen te blijven; hulp beperkt zich tot het leningen van materiële nood, sociale emancipatie blijft buiten beschouwing. Een caritatief denken - och god, die arme mensen - herdefinieert sociale problemen als armoedeproblemen.

The Holocaust was the product of a particular time and place: Europe in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution and the upheavals of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution. These were the contexts in which ancient hostilities toward Jews and Judaism, deeply rooted in religious rivalry but updated with the trappings of modern science, turned into a fixation on removing Jews from civil society as a magical solution to all social problems.