The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solutions for the… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is,… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology.… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
