“The ancient world found an end to anarchy in the Roman Empire, but the Roman Empire was a brute fact, not an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The global jihad espoused by Osama bin Laden and other contemporary extremists is clearly rooted in contemporary issues and interpretations of Islam.… — Natana J. Delong-Bas Copy Share Image
“She knew all too well the type of violence inflicted on those who tried to change the social order of the Delta.… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
“One may first point to the obvious fact that a given social order precedes any individual organismic development. That is, world-openness, while… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“The first to overcome the problem were the ancient Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia. There, a scorching sun beating upon rich… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“And with our work,” John continued, “we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story”—i.e.,… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“In an age when the difference between prince and peasant was thought to be in the stars, Mr Tzara, art was naturally… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 that the establishment of… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and… — Kakuzo Okakura Copy Share Image
“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
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