It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal… — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment - I agree with Nietzsche about this - a resentment… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities -… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“THE LAST 500 YEARS HAVE WITNESSED A breathtaking series of revolutions. The earth has been united into a single ecological and historical… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 that the establishment of… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
“Ask why you can’t lift an innocent finger without permission, and your lack of the simplest reasoning power baffles them. One must… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, philosophy or intellectual activity in ancient China was distinguished from manual labor, and thus philosophical texts were not… — Hans-Georg Moeller Copy Share Image
“Oakeshott believed that civil association has been increasingly displaced by enterprise, under pressure from political elites, managers, parties and ideologues. It is… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“When it comes to specifying the values particular to paganism, people have generally listed features such as these: an eminently aristocratic conception… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Quite so: the choice, as laid out by Muhammad himself, is conversion, subjugation as dhimmis, or the sword.49 Qutb accordingly denies any… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“The ideal hero of the age emerges as a titanic individual who, after rejecting and overthrowing a corrupt social order, struggles on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can now recognize that the fate of the soul is the fate of the social order; that if the spirit within… — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“If Capitalism improves the economic position all round, it is of secondary importance that it does not raise all to the same… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image