Quotes of: Social-problems Keyword

People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.

Whitfield Diffie

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Yann Martel

There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation.

Zeena Schreck

What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social ...

Indra Nooyi

For all his claims to be just a propagandist, [Bernard Shaw's] writing has an effect nearer to that of music than most of those who have claimed to be writing "dramas of feeling." His plays are a joy to watch, not because they purport to deal with so...

The Dyer's Hand

Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude: Absent a delicate balance--rights and duties, freedom and order--the social fabric begins to un...

The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism

God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very different culture, a different time period. They had their problems and we have ours. God is constant but man is not, and he foreknew the ...

Killosophy

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great prob...

Les Misérables

Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divid...

Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

Patrick Bateman: Come on, Bryce. There are a lot more important problems than Sri Lanka to worry about. Timothy Bryce: Like what? Patrick Bateman: Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world h...

American Psycho

Although the typical abusive man works to maintain a positive public image, it is true that some women have abusive partners who are nasty or intimidating to everyone. How about that man? Do his problems result from mistreatment by his parents? The a...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.

Chinese

In Life...You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. Don't be part of the problem.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

...until summer becomes -- a room in a dream.

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.

Look into the stillness

Pain provides an opportunity for heroism; the opportunity is seized with surprising frequency.

The Problem of Pain

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

The Problems of Philosophy

History is the memory of States.

A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

Julius Genachowski

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

Paul Weyrich

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.

Robert Gottlieb