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
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet 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
For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to… — Marilyn Frye 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
The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in bothscholarly… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child… — Narendra Modi 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
It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of… — Raphael Lemkin 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
“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney 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
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of… — C. D. Innes 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
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good… — Edward Abbey 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 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
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
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people… — Murray Bookchin 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
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran 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
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
The state should never have instituted and enforced legal property rights in persons, and should not have been in the business of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
