The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
