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| eeac5e2 | The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation. | youth despondency social-problems drugs | Spider Robinson | |
| f18aae5 | We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity? | good national-troubles social-problems insanity | G. K. Chesterton | |
| ecd59bf | Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in. | lower-class working-class rivers-of-london peter-grant social-problems social-criticism hypocrisy | Ben Aaronovitch |