Social Unrest Quotes

• When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

  John Boyd Orr

  Fabric, Revolution, Enough

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• Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Done, Causes

  "Ann Coulter, the pin-up model" by Elana Schor, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2008.

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• Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Civilization, Logic, Virtue

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.146, Routledge

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• If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

  Jane Addams

  Spiritual, Expression, Differences

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

  Milton Friedman

  Teenager, Book, Law

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• Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Disease, Poverty

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• The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

  Walt Dohrn

  World, Violence, Unrest

  Source: collider.com

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• As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.

  Edward Snowden

  Meaningful, Jobs, Years

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.

  Ray Davies

  Trying, Unemployment, News

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• Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.

  Christine Lagarde

  Two, Risk, World

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• It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

  Le Corbusier

  Roots, Today, Revolution

  1923 Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

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• China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary and we had warnings of social unrest. But it did not happen. Instead, there was a restructuring in our economic system. I am not sure if China will follow a Western playbook in this respect.

  Zhang Xin

  Scary, Warning, Economic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are many countries in the world that when they reached the middle-income stage, they witnessed serious structural problems such as growth stagnation, a widening wealth gap and increasing social unrest.

  Li Keqiang

  Country, Growth, Income

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