Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
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