“This system of chain wars can end only in two ways: either it will result in horrible physical destructions and concomitant revolutionary… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“If human society produces children like cats and dogs for the disturbance of social order, then the world becomes hellish, as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“In an age when the difference between prince and peasant was thought to be in the stars, Mr Tzara, art was naturally… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“We need to build a new cooperative social order out beyond the principles of hierarchy, rule out competitiveness. Starting in the grass… — Carol P. Christ Carol Plaskow Copy Share Image
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishingconnections and negotiating relationships. Emphasis is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the daily battles against the employers and their allies, the workers gradually learn the deeper meaning of this struggle. At first… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“In principle the human productive community may be constituted in either of two ways. First, it may be consciously regulated. Whether its… — Rudolph Hiferding Copy Share Image
“Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order. This truth is… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“To spare Cloyce's victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent others from perhaps being infected by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The first to overcome the problem were the ancient Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia. There, a scorching sun beating upon rich… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“She knew all too well the type of violence inflicted on those who tried to change the social order of the Delta.… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“But humans do such things all the time. Because the Sapiens social order is imagined, humans cannot preserve the critical information for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It has become steadily clearer to me that alienation is one of the determining realities of the contemporary age. . . By… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
“While the emergence from embeddedness in the interpersonal frees one from the subjectivity of constructing one's morality on the bases of arbitrary… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“Guan Zhong explains (as the fourth-century-BC Guanzi attests) that management of water is the key to maintaining social order. There are ‘five… — Philip Ball Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism]… — Myron Coureval Fagan Copy Share Image
You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image