The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum…

“Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.”

— Simon Cottee

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

— George Orwell

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

— Louis O. Kelso

Political power without economic power is sterile.

— Louis O. Kelso

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

— David Riesman

The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance…

— Michael Kimmel

“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.”

— A.E. Samaan

“Free speech is the guardian of individual autonomy, a shield that allows each person to shape their own beliefs and values independent of external…

— James William Steven Parker

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

— Herbert Marcuse

Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On the other…

— Masao Abe

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun,…

— Herbert Marcuse

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy…

— Terry Eagleton

Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or…

— Eric Hoffer

“intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.”

— Aileen M. Kelly

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce…

— Ezra Stiles