Social Failures Quotes

#1. I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

Colum McCann

#2. Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.

Vir Das

#4. All failures are so because they lack social interest.

Alfred Adler

#5. We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.

John Vasconcellos

#6. I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

Antonia Thomas

#7. Pigpen taught me how to upload code from the internet and how to get it on people's computers and phones so I have a back door to their network.

Katie McGarry

#8. Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

Meher Baba

#9. If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

Gary Cherone

#10. No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

Jane Addams

#11. Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Camille Paglia

#12. One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.

Jim Stanford

#13. All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

Alfred Adler

#14. We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least
call it a mechanospiritual sense
we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

Natalie Angier

#15. She watched him recede into the past as he stood ... each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.

Salman Rushdie

#16. In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.

Marianne Williamson

#17. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

James Tobin

#18. substance which the body believes to be dangerous enters the body, by any route (it may be eaten, breathed or taken in through the skin), defence mechanisms begin to operate to deal with this challenge. This is happening all

Mark Hodgson

#19. Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

Herman Kahn

#20. What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

Emma Goldman