A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The main focus of Burroughs' Wild Boys tetralogy is an apocalyptic world in which the social order is disrupted enough to allow… — Jamie Russell Copy Share Image
“Comparing African and Egyptian circumstances also points to other reasons why churches survived in some regions and failed in others. From earliest… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“If we persist in defining ourselves as doomed, human nature as beyond redemption, and social institutions as beyond reform, then we shall… — Samuel P. Oliner Copy Share Image
Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives.… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“The Islamic faith and ideology is at another pivotal moment in its history. Having survived for a thousand years or more after… — Cal Sarwar on facebook Copy Share Image
So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In Die Welt von Gestern, Stefan Zweig attributed the decline of civil order in Europe to the myth of progress.7 In all… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“We should not be surprised therefore if British conservative thinkers – notably Hume, Smith, Burke and Oakeshott – have tended to see… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“As the number of inhabitants grew, so did the amount of information required to coordinate their affairs. Between the years 3500 BC… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image