Top 70 Societal Quotes

My focus is not on solving nature’s deeper mysteries. It is on using nature’s deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Philip Emeagwali
I can’t for the life of me think of the link between Iraq and why a fruit vendor self-immolates in Tunisia and cracks this seemingly solid crust that turns out to be so fragile that societal unrest touches off.
David Petraeus
With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.
Mercedes Schlapp
Health care – the ability of neural networks to ingest lots of data and make predictions is very well suited to this area, and potentially will have a huge societal impact.
Jeff Dean
‘Sonchiriya’ speaks of the consequences of societal bias and the bloody consequences of revenge when human lives become casualty.
Bhumi Pednekar
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
Muhtar Kent
I strongly believe that love as an emotion is sufficient for a girl and a boy to be together, and these societal norms like caste, creed or religion are all man-made.
Sara Khan
Multiple characters’ opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange and wonderful setting I’m reading about.
Sabaa Tahir
Many of the underlying factors in poor mental health are societal.
Luciana Berger
Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how the company can invest to prevent further escalation in societal health care costs.
John Quelch
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Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they’ve caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.
Jon Lovett
My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend.
Jaboukie Young-White
CEOs who boldly lean into fulfilling the dual mandate of earning profits and providing societal benefits will find a receptive public.
Richard Edelman
Although images of perfection in people’s personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies – utopian images – can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager
Just as a doctor is important for saving lives, every IAS officer is important for societal development; he’s like a messenger sent by God to serve the public.
Jagapathi Babu
All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they’re too smart, especially in the sciences – ‘No one will date them. They won’t be popular.’ – don’t apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged.
Eileen Pollack
Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
Kenneth Langone
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.
George M. Whitesides