Famous quotes with Social engineering

• The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

  Stockwell Day
• Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

  Ron Paul
• Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

  Karl Popper
• I'm better at criticism than social engineering, so I always have a hard time answering good practical questions like "what can the average person do?"I've always seen the formulation of public policy — and solutions to social problems — as a collaborative effort. I've always felt that my part of the job was to analyze and criticize in the hope that other people might use my work to forge solutions.

  Wendy Kaminer
• Neither ecological nor social engineering will lead us to a conflict-free, simple path . . . Utilitarians and others who simply advise us to be happy are unhelpful, because we almost always have to make a choice either between different kinds of happiness--different things to be happy _about_--or between these and other things we want, which nothing to do with happiness.

  Mary Midgley

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