Social Consequence Quotes

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes!

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

You can't have generation after generation not knowing work.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Transformation in the nature of work tend to brings wrenching social changes in their wake.

The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.

AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

A completely industrialized society is of no consequence to me.

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.