Societal Factors Quotes

We're all products of our own environment.

When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Race is a factor in everything.

Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact.

Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give me a situation where there are a sufficient number of social resources so people don't have to compete for those resources, and I will show you a society where racism is held in check.

These children are unfortunate rather than criminal. Their delinquency is not the product of nature but rather the cruel circumstances into which they were born.

[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in which the technology is made available.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

I can create as many programs and mentorships and scholarships as I want, but it doesn't change the environment in which our youth are growing up in.

Many of the underlying factors in poor mental health are societal.

Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

He must be a bold man indeed who is confident that he knows what causes crime.

Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.

I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.