Social Issues Quotes
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You know what will bring family and social issues front and center? If 2012 America sees middle-schoolers reenacting Lady Gaga videos.
— Jim Geraghty
Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.
— Michael Haneke
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
— D. A. Carson
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.
— Amy Hatvany
Crystal, do you like being a white girl?
— Randolph Randy Camp
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
— Bill Ayers
Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time,
— Maude Barlow
I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
— Conor Oberst
No, I thought. No way. I love her too much. I would never do that. And then again, those two words, her voice, exploding inside my head: "Tyler, wait!
— Amy Hatvany
It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.
— Anders Dahlvig
Abandon ideology. It's time for every American to think for themselves about the financial, social and political issues that will shape our future.
— Richard L. DeProspo
I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.
— John Howard
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it,
— Lina Bo Bardi
All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.
— James Ellroy
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
— Arthur Smith
I've always been pessimistic about China. I can't see China going on without economic or social issues.
— Ronnie Chan
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
— Deborah Kass
Some day soon I'm gonna get away from here.
— Randolph Randy Camp
I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.
— Don Lemon
The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
— Reid Hoffman
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
— Connor Jessup
I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.
— Kenny Rogers
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.
— Trey Parker
I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead
— Amy Hatvany
I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
— Cal Ripken Jr.
It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.
— Bonnie Wright
There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.
— Jessye Norman
When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
— Asghar Farhadi
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
— Tim Berners-Lee
Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Be the best you can be for yourself!
— Susan Marie Murdoch
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
— Jonathan Haidt
Corporate greed controls political will.
— Aaron B. Powell
I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
— Sam Brownback
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
— Tibor Fischer
It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.
— Diane Hendricks
About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.
— Richard Branson
Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.
— Mick Karabegovic
It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.
— Michael Coren
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
— Eve Ensler
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
— Hanna Rosin
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
— Tim Berners-Lee
It's not social issues I care about.
— John McCain
Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.
— Robin Thicke
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
— Linda Sue Park
Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?
— Rick Perlstein
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.
— Judith Rodin
And I kind of like the Teen Rebels; they seem to be better than the Bullying Trio. Still, watch your backs, rebels!
— Jacquel Chrissy May
The girl I'd been just an hour ago was gone; she'd been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.
— Amy Hatvany
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
— Archibald Cox
This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since "Roe v Wade."
— Jerry Falwell
Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise
— Peter Drucker
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
Life and death issues are a universal concern. A person can learn about life by investigating the psychological and social aspects related to dying.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
— Pete Hamill
Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
— Milton William Cooper
Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.
— Assata Shakur
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
— Bell Hooks
I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.
— Jerry Greenfield
If I don't care what toothpaste you use, then why should I care who's in your bed?
— Randolph Randy Camp
Social issues, reclusiveness, combined with regular vivid nightmares, and imagination are why I write.
— Chris Mentillo
Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.
— Jordan Peele
I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me.
— George W. Bush
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
— Robert Reich
I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.
— Howard Gordon
Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.
— Susie Orbach