295 Quotes About Social-issues

Start being the change yourself, and the world will change - see the rules that harm the society and overwhelm them with reasoning, compassion and conscience, and they will cease to exist, perhaps slowly, but inevitably.

Maybe he was too drunk to hear me when I told him to stop. Maybe I didn’t say it loudly enough. Maybe I didn’t say it enough times.

If I don't care what toothpaste you use, then why should I care who's in your bed?

What right does a society have to call itself human, if it does not act like one, instead keeps quarreling and slaughtering in the name of the petty differences that they themselves have created!

The perennial lot of human beings and human societies is animosities, antagonisms, and acrimonies. Power, venality, bitterness, and cynicism result in unavoidable conflict, cleavages, schisms, and disharmonies in human affairs. Erosion of standards and values creates disaffection, disillusionment, dissidence, and social instability.

Some day soon I'm gonna get away from here.

For the kids at Chaff, the annual Career Day, held about two weeks before the summer break, was enough to make most of them at contemplate career suicide before they'd even taken an aptitude test or a written resume. Held outdoors on the schoolyard blacktop, the assemblage of coal miners, driving-range golf-ball retrievers, basket weavers, ditch diggers, book-binders, traumatized fire-fighters, and the world's last astronaut never does much to inspire.

We cannot solve an old problem with old solutions.

But as I realized that in this new world I was the culture alien, I began to think seriously about questions that had nagged at me since I was a teenager: Why has on one else from my high school made it to the Ivy League? Why are people like me so poorly represented in America's elite institutions? Why is domestic so common in families like mine? Why did I think that places like Yale and Harvard were so unreachable? Why did successful people feel so different?