Ills Of Society Quotes

#1. The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#2. I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

Ice Cube

#3. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Simone Weil

#5. Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

George McGovern

#6. Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [ ... ] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

Homer Hickam

#7. It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

Jane Jacobs

#8. As Elijah collapsed, shaking, against him, Baz wrapped his arms around his lover, shut his eyes and let the velvet rope Elijah had used to lead him here settle comfortably around his heart.

Heidi Cullinan

#9. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Russell Simmons

#10. So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.

Luis Gutierrez

#11. I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. These chemicals do not alter or reform the ills of our civilisation. They adapt the human being to them.

Peter Hitchens

#12. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

Barack Obama

#13. Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

P. Chidambaram

#14. And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then - if you allow it - everything else.

Michelle Moran

#15. The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

#17. Empathy doesn't necessarily mean being self-sacrificing. Far from it. Understanding how someone else sees things doesn't imply that you'll act in his interest; in some situations - in war, for example - you want to do exactly the opposite.

Paul Graham

#18. I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.

Mo Ibrahim

#19. Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

Barbara Tuchman

#20. Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#21. Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

Arthur Helps

#22. You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.

Asif Ali Zardari

#23. The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#24. Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.

Jack White

#25. But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

Paul Theroux

#27. More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#28. Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and sometimes that's surely the case, but I think that imagining the perfected society is a way of expressing your disgust with the current state of affairs.

Christine Jennings