Social Problems Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Social Problems Quotes from famous persons: Oscar Wilde, Brianna Wu, Marco Rubio, Juan Manuel Santos, Rudy Giuliani. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Social Problems Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Oscar Wilde

The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.

Brianna Wu

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Marco Rubio

We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.

Juan Manuel Santos

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made – and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism – is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You’re not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you’ll never eliminate all poverty.

Rudy Giuliani

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world‘s people.

Jacque Fresco

I believe the only way we’ll be able to solve infant mortality – and other huge social problems – is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

Jane Chen

The status quo tough-on-crime policies of the ’90s and 2000s are not working and are not popular. And it provides me with hope about the possibilities for San Francisco and this whole country in terms of moving away from our dependence on prisons and jails to solve social problems.

Chesa Boudin

People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we’re never going to stop needing those.

Randall Munroe

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, ‘Who gets to implement them?’ and, ‘What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?’

Evgeny Morozov

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn’t believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

Ben Rattray

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

Eamon de Valera

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they’re really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It’s skills-based volunteering.

Jonathan Tisch

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

Annette Funicello

We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living – the standards of living – of the population.

Sergei Lavrov

The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.

Laurene Powell Jobs

The answers to today’s most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

Gurjeet Singh

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

Sue Townsend

I think that we’re so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they’d rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.

Blake Farenthold

I am afraid that if you don’t find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it’s always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

Thomas Piketty

I am a passionate advocate for developing the future workforce, addressing complex social problems, and shaping a regulatory framework. These three subjects all revolve around greater innovation and growth.

Pierre Nanterme

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Amanda Lindhout

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.

Sergio Ermotti

I call on all the countries of the world, especially the donor countries, to speed up their contributions so that the Palestinian people may overcome their economic and social problems and proceed with reconstruction and the rebuilding of infrastructures.

Yasser Arafat

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

Cal Thomas

I don’t need the new fan; I need the fan that has anxiety – parents are getting divorced, social problems, gender problems – I need them to come to the ultimate show, and they’re going to get that at Knotfest.

Shawn Crahan

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

Frances Arnold

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

Kailash Satyarthi