Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and that’s fine, but we have contact with our… — Brady Quinn Copy Share Image
“The ease of having ‘friends’ online might make people more likely to just tune out when they don’t feel like responding to… — Kate Fagan Copy Share Image
As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the… — James P Comer Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful,… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth,… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Belonging to a group can provide the child with a variety of resources that an individual friendship often cannot--a sense of collective… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the… — Dorian Corey Copy Share Image
I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable,… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills.… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently.… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image